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World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden

by Grauwolf on 7/20/10, 12:40 PM with 60 comments

• by paul9290 on 7/20/10, 3:37 PM

  It's 2010 and at least here in the U.S. the pirating activities of millions prompted Hulu, Vevo and other great legal sites to get content. Hollywood bended which is great and downloading is so 2005. If your pirating and outside the US then more power to you as you dont have legal alternatives - yet.

  If your in the US I wonder why are you still pirating copyrighted material? Im curious to hear...

• by rick888 on 7/20/10, 1:37 PM

  I wonder what the response would be like if there was a party dedicated to breaking the GPL. Piracy seems to be fine, but anybody that violates an open source license like the GPL gets demonized like they are a criminal.

• by madmaze on 7/20/10, 1:53 PM

  i hope they will get a US branch.. eventhough i believe its wishful thinking..

• by Dementati on 7/20/10, 1:40 PM

  As soon as they get set up in my city, I'll be switching my ISP.

• by KoZeN on 7/20/10, 2:01 PM

  I appreciate the positives and the logical motivation behind this move but does this not provide an opportunity for end-users to torrent more nefarious files?

  Surely Swedish pedophiles are having a field day? Am I missing something?