Friday, September 5, 2008

Pirate Bay and the Arboga child murders

The two murdered children in Arboga has gotten quite a media coverage here in Sweden (article from The Local, in english). Now the entire police investigation can be downloaded from Pirate Bay. I usually don't object to what the Pirate Bay does -- usually the only damages they cause are economic ones to large media companies.

But this time they are actually taking it one step further and showing immense disrespect towards two brutally murdered children who now have photos of their autopsies publically available on the internet. And since the internet never forgets, the damage is already done. Of course, the Pirate Bay people -- arrogant as they are -- don't really care: "I don't think it is our job to judge if something is ethical or unethical" (Peter Sunde). I suppose it is just a matter of time before outright criminal material such as child porn is regularly hosted by the Pirate Bay.

I'll just have to get my hands on the next season of 24 through some other channel.