Block The Pirate Bay, Italian ISPs ordered
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s IFPI is well pleased.
“The Court of Bergamo in Italy has again ruled that ISPs should act to prevent their users from accessing The Pirate Bay,” it crows.
Last April p2pnet quoted PC World as saying Giancarlo Mancusi, a public prosecutor in the northern town of Bergamo, was “investigating The Pirate Bay’s founders for alleged violations of Italy’s copyright law, the first justice authority to take action against the Swedish Web site outside its home territory”.
Mancusi managed to get a court order in August 2008 blocking access from Italian ISPs to all Pirate Bay addresses, but the ban was lifted on appeal two months later.
Then in January, Italy was the latest country to put the interests of the corporate entertainment industry ahead of those of its citizens, said p2pnet, continuing Italian judges could now order ISPs to block BitTorrent sites used to “illegally disseminate copyright infringing content”.
And it won’t matter where they’re hosted.
Now, “The Court of Bergamo heard the case again this week and in light of the Supreme Court’s judgment, ruled that all Italian ISPs should block their users’ access to The Pirate Bay,” says the IFPI, adding:
“The Italian Fiscal Police have notified all the ISPs with the order to block The Pirate Bay.”
..… and identi.ca
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
IFPI – Italian court orders ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, February 9, 2010
p2pnet – The Pirate Bay under attack in Italy, April 30, 2009
p2pnet – ISPs to block BitTorrent sites, says Italy, January 8, 2010
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February 10th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
So are they going to block proxies and VPNs as well? What a useless straw grasping waste of effort.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
“The Italian Fiscal Police have notified all the ISPs with the order to block The Pirate Bay.”
No Problem: “Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.”
There is more.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
“The Italian Fiscal Police have notified all the ISPs with the order to block The Pirate Bay.”
No Problem: “Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.”
There are more.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
“So are they going to block proxies and VPNs as well?”
They can not block proxies and VPNs There is too many of them.
February 13th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Funny i live in the United States and i don’t have any problem with the pirate bay.
I can even transfer files between two computers with their website and a modem and router.
I really don’t waste my time with music files just application programs.
Pirate bay is pretty cool.