Danish ISP blocks The Pirate Bay
p2pnet news | Freedom:- As part of their contribution in the global entertainment cartel effort to close down Swedish search site The Pirate Bay, Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG have succeeded in getting Danish ISP Tele2 (DMT2-Tele2) to block all access to it.
It’s no surprise to learn from TorrentFreak that the action springs from the Big4’s IFPI ((International Federation of Phonographic Industry).
But, "The Pirate Bay team has already asked other BitTorrent admins to stand up against the IFPI lobby, and arranged a meeting with Tele2 to discuss the current events," says the story.
It has TPB co-founder Brokep saying, "I hope the torrent community understands what this will do to Danish people. It will also act as a very bad precedent for the European Union, and I hope everybody will fight this."
The Pirate Bay team is, "registering new (Danish) domains, to make sure people can still download .torrent files from the Bay when the ban is activated later today tomorrow," says TorrentFreak, going on:
"In addition the Pirate Bay will launch a campaign website, together with the Danish pro-piracy lobby ‘Piratgruppen’.
"The verdict is absurd," says Piratgruppen spokesman Sebastian Gjerding.
"It’s true that you can access copyrighted material through The Pirate Bay, as you can with Google or Rapidshare. Should they be blocked as well?"
Swedish prosecutor Håkan Roswall, "spearheaded the corporate move to have Fredrik Neij (’TiAMO’), Gottfrid Svartholm (’Anakata’), Peter Sunde (’Brokep’) and businessman Carl Lundström charged with assisting copyright infringement," p2pnet posted on Friday, adding:
"Given that TPB’s servers are stashed here there and everywhere, it’s hard to see what this official effort to crush the site will achieve and, ‘In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site,’ says Sunde.
"The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We’ve been here for years and we will be here many more."
Also See:
TorrentFreak – IFPI Forces Danish ISP to Block The Pirate Bay, February 4, 2005
p2pnet – The Pirate Bay, p2pnet and linking, February 1, 2005
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February 4th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Boycott Tele2!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:43 am
The net is closing in…
February 4th, 2008 at 11:48 am
USe Psiphon or Tor to overcome the blocking. It is working!
Or switch ISP!
February 4th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Boycott is the way to go. They’ll cry like babies when a good chunk of their customer base abandons ship for more friendly waters…
February 4th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Please have a closer look of the case before you comment. Tele2 didn’t choose to block access (or rather, to filter DNS-queries) – they’ve been explicitly ordered to do so. As was the case with allofmp3 a while back, Tele2 did argue their case, and did try to avoid having to do this. One of the effects of this, is that Tele2 (or any other ISP operating here in Denmark) could be held responsible for filesharing carried out by their users – something that might be close to any ISP’s worst nightmare. Therefore, Tele2 doesn’t like this anymore than we do, but they have little choice but to comply. Since circumvention of this is rather easy (switch dns-server, edit your hosts-file, use the ip-address instead, whatever), boycotting Tele2 really would be rather stupid – they’re actually fighting as a temporary ally in these particular cases (TPB wasn’t the first in Denmark and they sure as hell won’t be last, now that IFPI can taste blood here)
February 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
The danish politicians is mostly a bunch of old seniles twats.
we (as in im from denmark) have a law stating that all internet traffic must be kept in a source/destination ip.
tons and tons of useless logs and the ISP have to pay for it them self (which means the customer).
Its not censure ship!, its a public service to keep you from doing something that might be illegal..
February 4th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
f**king reeeeetards the lot of them.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Thank you anders for pointing out the details of the problem. I’ve since also read what you have said. Boycott would indeed be pointless. The idiots are the politicians, as usual, after all…
February 4th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
…is there a way to boycott the IFPI?
February 5th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Maybe a war of Anonymous against MAFIAA/IFPI can help?
The Scient ology war will be an indicator what Internet citizens can do to stop cos from infringing their rights.