p2pnet.net News View:- Evidently, very little is happening in Sweden right now. This is indicated by an attack against the Bureau of Piracy that turned out to be quite a funny story.

Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet ran a story about Piratshoppen, the website that sells Piratbyrån and the Pirate Bay related material such as T-shirts, stickers and so on. The article claimed Piratshoppen sold material of a lesser moral standard. They claimed that via the shop, one could purchase T-shirts with captions such as, ‘All women desire anal sex’, and ‘Feminism – for those who are fet, ugly and jealous’.

The material was labeled ’sexist’, which I agree is accurate for the captions in the example.

But Piratbyrån doesn’t sell their T-shirts directly. They hire a company called Peer99 which also has other customers, and all customers, including Piratbyrån, have their own sections in the website.

The reporter found the offensive T-shirts under sections belonging to other customers.

To make matters worse, Piratbyrån’s web server had been in police custody for almost two months when the article was published, about 22 hours ago. Instead it had been replaced by a temporary newssite in the form of a blog, which hadn’t even linked to Piratshoppen.

In the article, the reporter claims Piratbyrån hasn’t become rich by advertisements, ‘as we last month uncovered that the Pirate Bay did’, but from the Piratshoppen. But as a matter of fact, The Pirate Bay linked to Piratshoppen, and Piratbyrån didn’t, in fact, until very recently.

The situation is clear: the reporter had countered the lack of local happenings by fabricating a story based on in-correct claims, to point an accusing finger at a website that hardly even existed most of the time that the story covered – and the accusation, amounting to something like ‘They get fat off of sexism’ – is based completely on ‘guilt by association’, which is something that a respectable newspaper should be very careful to avoid.

It could end with this, the fact that a notable Swedish daily pointed a guild-by association accusation against Piratbyrån based on inaccurate claims, but it didn’t.

Not long after the article was published, some industrious digger found out an interesting fact:\

Svenska Dagbladet also has a shopping system from an external provider, linked to their website, as part of their advertising system.

Just as they claim Piratbyrån has.

And Svenska Dagbladets webshop sold hardcore porn movies, with titles such as Anal Cunts, The Wrong Hole, Italian Lolita 1-5 Limited Edition and Mattress III – hardly something that promotes a very positive view on women, in other words.

So, the ‘lesser moral standard’ accusation takes place in a newspaper selling movies picturing women as sexual organs and mattresses.

This resulted in a number of comments on the article, as well as blog postings (sorry, no English links as of yet, you just have to believe me on this one).

Not long after this occurred, the porn was suddenly removed from SvDs website. A few hours later, it seems that the article has been a bit edited and corrected. Perhaps some editor pulled the young reporter in the ear and told him something about how he wasn’t working on a tabloid?

It would be nice, however, to see if Svenska Dagbladet or the reporter take responsibility and act on this, maybe posting some kind of acknowledgement.

Because aside from the fact the newspaper did the same thing as the article accused others of doing; to point an accusing finger at someone, based on ‘guilt by association’ and false facts, isn’t a nice thing to do and it should be followed by some form of official ‘please excuse us, we were wrong’.

Links: (Swedish)
Copyriot
Frihet, fildelning och feminism
Sänd mina rötter regn

Torrentfreak – The Netherlands

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