Big 4 labels try to stomp Israeli P2P site
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG are busy, busy, using their IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) in one of their latest bully-boy tactics.
They’re using to use their obscene financial and political clout to browbeat Israeli ISPs into blocking a torrent search site they don’t like.
"I order the respondents, that is Israeli internet service providers, to systematically block access to the illicit site, httpshare," wrote Haifa District Court Justice Gideon Ginat in February, "so that surfers cannot enter this site and utilize it in in order to impede upon the claimants’ copy rights," says YNet News.
The order, as yet with no time frame, applied to Israel’s three largest ISPs.
"The controversial site, httpshare, doesn’t contain any actual movies or music files for surfers to download, but merely has links to file sharing sites, such as bittorent, which allow web surfers to download such files," says the story.
"Web surfers have noted that in the last few days they receive a 404 error message from their internet browser when they attempt to access the site, but no notice of the site’s obstruction has appeared online as of yet."
But the site operators aren’t giving up, continues YNet News.
They’re, "attempting to fight back against this virtual shut out by changing the IP address of their website, but have reported that internet service providers have managed to block out their website even after they have made these modifications.
"The file sharing battle has begun…we’ll be left with a world wide web that contains news alone," reads the site’s homepage, according to the story.
It was still online when we checked at 6:32 Pacific.
Definitely stay tuned.
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YNet News – Internet providers ordered to block file sharing website, March 6, 2008
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March 6th, 2008 at 10:22 am
The Israeli army is on the wrong target. Istead of persecuting and bombing the palestinien citixzen they should bomb the pigs at the RIAA and MPAA!
March 6th, 2008 at 10:28 am
The server still seem to respond but it is very very very slow. May be the news of the shut down is attracting too much traffic. This is what happen to wikileak.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:55 am
“It was still online when we checked at 6:32 Pacific.”
of course it was/is.
It’s not as if the page will be gone, its just that the .il ISPs have to blog the access to it. Some kind of blindfold for israeli users if your will that will cover only their eyes from the reality, but the reality isn’t gone because of that.
It’s kind of ironic that I as a german can visit that page since I a) don’t have such an censoring ISP and b) use opendns server to resolve the name in a case my ISP owned one has some kind of hickup
To bad that I can’t read those non latin letters otherwise that would yet be another great example how the own actions of the MAFIAA judt make people that haven’t yet heared of the possibilities aware that such sites exist.
Stupid!
OpenDNS
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
March 7th, 2008 at 6:39 am
The IFPI can kiss my ass. I download 24/7, muhahahaha. I share all my 3.2 TB of movies, music, games, books 24/7, muhahahaa.
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