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Via TorrentFreak, on the IOC's takedown notice sent not to p2p network The Pirate Bay which was hosting torrents of Olympics footage, but Sweden's Minister of Justice: “We were going to ignore the Olympics, but now we’re loading our cannons. Our weapons of mass distribution are pointed towards China.”
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This sounds like the quote is by the minister herself. THAT would be great, indeed. But unfortunately it’s not. Now it has been renamed to “The Beatrice Bay”, btw.