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A comment on The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA.

Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by trouble on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @07:52PM (#3482678)
"The word SOPA means "trash" in Swedish. The word PIPA means "a pipe" in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence."

An interesting statement overall, but sentences like the one above have to make you wonder how seriously TPB is thinking about the issue.

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Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by msandin on Thursday January 19, 2012 @02:30AM (#3483550)
Not very it would seem given that "pipa" does not mean "pipe" in the sense TPB are using it but rather only in the sense of a "pipe for smoking". A pipe in the sense TPB use it would be "rör". But relating the combination "trash" and "pipe for smoking" to their line of reasoning seems at least a little harder/more far fetched.
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Re:The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA by nixy on Thursday January 19, 2012 @04:09AM (#3483747)
Well, "pipa" also means muzzle, which is perhaps a bit closer to their analogy.
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