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Swedish Museum Puts Pirate Bay Server On Display

Posted by samzenpus on from the truly-a-piece-of-history dept.

The Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology has put the server from The Pirate Bay on display. The server was confiscated in a police raid last year. The museum bought the server for 2,000 kronor ($240) from a member of the Bureau of Piracy, a Swedish group seeking the decriminalization of filesharing. "This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items, and it is a part of our mission as a museum not to avoid complicated questions," curator Nils Olander said. The display is 98% complete and the museum staff has been waiting on a seeder since Thursday.

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  1. Re:End of an era? by geekoid · · Score: 2, Informative

    That can't work for the same reason DRM can't work.
    Everything is traceable if it is going some where that needs to have someone read it.

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  2. Re:How exactly did the musuem acquire it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    They cloned all the disks and decided they don't need the server anymore. Somebody with authority signed the release. The information is important, the hardware is not.

  3. Re:No specs and/or pictures... by sznupi · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a picture in BBC article abiut the outcome of trial:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm

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  4. Re:End of an era? by Stile+65 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I2P. It works well as long as *enough* people port-forward, but it doesn't require port-forwarding from any specific individual.

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  5. Re:End of an era? by zach297 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really? I have expirenced the exact opposite. I can upload at about 60 KBytes/s but my downloads are extremely slow unless I limit the uploads to around 20 KBytes/s. Maybe there is some part of torrents that I am mistaken about.