Techdirt by Carlo Longino - Jul 6, '07 9:27pm
Previous entertainment industry-led attempts to shut down The Pirate Bay torrent search engine
haven't been successful, but the Swedish police are still trying to help out. Consequently, next week, the site will be blocked to anyone from inside the country who tries to visit it -- because it's being added to
a list of child-pornography sites that Swedish ISPs block. A Pirate Bay admin writes on his blog that the police say that
"if the content is still there next week", they'll add the site to the list -- but they won't specify what the offending content is (never mind the the site doesn't actually host and content on its own). It's highly unlikely it's actual child porn, though of course the entertainment industry has no problem
equating file-sharing to child porn. But since the Pirate Bay is nothing more than a search engine, can Google expect to be blocked in Sweden soon? Yahoo? MSN? After all, chances are those sites link to at least one piece of copyrighted content.
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