Ayiekie Wrote:So, if you did some "checking" that shows that "Zeropaid probably had the facts right", would you care to link to those, presumably more reliable sources?
Sure, the facts that I more or less verified:
1) Fredrik Neij worked at Rix telecom. This is mentioned on several dozen websites and not disputed anywhere that i could find, but none strike me as esspecially reliable. repeating something often doesn't make it true, but that is all I could find. I believe sweden puts the tax returns of people online (or used to, they might have stopped), does anyone know the website for that?
2) Carl Lundstrom owned and ran Rix telecom. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/998/550
Stuff i couldn't find:
1) If Rix telecom gave such discounts as a standard benefit to employees. Or if it was a one off deal. It is often implied it was a one off deal but that seems to come from a talk show, and not with Carl Lundstrom. It's fairly standard for companies to give such side benefits (my last employer did forinstance) so i find the point raised in the talk show that he must have gotten some benefit from it ridiculus. with English subtitles some of the things where later corrected, he didn't give servers, just server space (as normal for these kinds of arrangements.) however I can't find the link to that at the moment.
2) Rix Telecom customers include the red cross and others. I traced a few websites back to their hosts but none of the ip addresses resolved to Rix telecom, though they supposedly had around 10'000 buisneses hosted before they where bought by Phonera AB. the websites might have switched providers or I was testing the wrong websites. Or they have multiple hosting providers with load balancing, or....
stuff i didn't bother to find
1) IFPI smear campaing. I have seen enough news to believe it without checking for it.
2) Chat is mainly about other things (women, beer, hardware) than politics. If a bunch of young men claimed otherwise I would be tempted to call bullshit.
3) Piratebay part of a effort to convert people to right wing extremism. my only comment; LOL.
4) Rix telecomunications didn't lose money on the piratebay. Internal accounting information for most companies is kept secret, so i didn't even bother to try and find the information.
most links are missing because I don't feel like typing dozens of links into yuku, plus I'd need to crawl back over several days of history to see which sites contained what. but more important I didn't find anything disputing the claims in the article.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."