Museums

serving pirates and people

Ah, the Swedish Museum of Science and Technology has acquired an old server from The Pirate Bay for their collection. Last week the founders of the ‘Bay were sentenced to a year in prison. But the site’s still up, of course. We did, however, hear that a prime investor in the site is a member of an extreme right-wing anti-immigrant party in Sweden.

The Museum’s got it right:

The museum says making copies of copyright-protected material is nothing new and that music tapes were also controversial in the 1970s.

See also: Home Taping is Killing Music

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