by Lisa Vaas on January 20, 2015

For three months, a Swiss art project titled "The Random Darknet Shopper" has had $100 in Bitcoins to spend per week and has used the virtual currency to buy random products off the Darknet.

Now, after purchasing 10 ecstasy tablets and a bogus Hungarian passport scan (among other things), that Darknet-surfing robot's shopping has been confiscated.

The London-based Swiss artists !Mediengruppe Bitnik - Domagoj Smoljo and Carmen Weisskopf - behind the project said on their blog that on 12 January, the day after the exhibition in Switzerland closed,  the public prosecutor's office of St. Gallen seized and sealed their work with the purpose of "[impeding] an endangerment of third parties through the drugs exhibited by destroying them."

 

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