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Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate'
An anonymous reader writes "Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (in Swedish) reports that Henrik Pontén, a lawyer of Antipiratbyrån, a Swedish organization against file sharing, has received a notification from officials that an application for change of his name has been approved and a new first name 'Pirate' has been added to his name. Authorities do not check the identity of persons applying for name changes. Pirate Pontén now has to apply for another change in order to revert the change."
If I 'gift' you five tonnes of rotting cow shit on your front lawn 'idiot', leaving you to tidy it up, I assume you would be perfectly fine with the court saying "it was a perfectly legitimate gift of cow shit that just so happened you didn't want and cost you a couple hundred dollars to clean up"?
No, it was a fraudulent, childish prank, like most of the Pirate Bay supporters' ideas. The wire transfers were not an attempt to transfer money but to harass a lawyer who had represented a client that they didn't like. Using wire transfers to harass somebody is immoral, and probably illegal in most countries.
Just because some flying object is unidentified, doesn't mean I have to respect people who jabber on about aliens. Just because not every last detail about 9/11 is known, doesn't mean I have to respect the people who whine on about how it was a Jewish conspiracy. And just because the anti-piracy groups do stupid things, doesn't mean I'm going to respect a lame conspiracy theory like that one unless you have at least some evidence to back it up.