Andre Yoskowitz
6 Sep 2008 18:55
The infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay is back in the news today, this time for refusing to take down a user-uploaded torrent that includes autopsy pictures of two toddlers that were murdered in Arboga earlier this year.
The photos are part of a larger collection of material that came from a police investigation into the case.
Niklas Jangestig, the father of the murdered children, pleaded with the admins of the site to have the pictures removed but Peter Sunde, one of the admins, refused.
“We don’t even want to them to remove the investigative material. But we don’t want there to be pictures of my dead children there,” Jangestig said.
Sunde responded to the request with an email that said “that is one helluva gripe. No, No and again no.”
“I don’t think it’s our job to judge if something is ethical or unethical or what other people want to put out on the internet,” added Sunde.
“People can express themselves and spread material they think is important, that’s one of the things we’re fighting for and if it’s then used for things which can be uncomfortable for some, so be it, but it’s more important that such a possibility exists than that it doesn’t exist,” he finished.
We can be sure that this situation is not over.