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Danish ISP Tele2 Challenges Pirate Bay Blockade

Posted by Zonk on from the arr-they'll-never-take-the-rum dept.

krasmussen writes "After Monday's injunction on Danish ISP Tele2 to block access to The Pirate Bay, the company has now decided to take the case further in court. 'We do not like being put in a role where we as ISP have to regulate people's freedom of speech' says Nicholai Pfeiffer, regulatory manager i Telenor, which owns Tele2. However, because the current ruling against Tele2 still stands, the customers are not going to regain access to The Pirate Bay at the moment."

3 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Possible interim solution: by BSAtHome · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Pirate Bay already beat them to it: http://thejesperbay.org/
    The name is a parody on the chairman of the IFPI...

  2. This is not packet filtering, only a DNS block by Gnavpot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just to clear up the confusion in some of the comments:
    The court did not order Tele2 to do any packet filtering. Tele2 will only have to remove piratebay.org from their DNS servers.

    So no need for proxies or firewall circumvention tools this time.

  3. English Translation by andersh · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Fogderetten (court) of Fredriksberg decided on Tuesday the 29/1 that Danish Internet provider Tele 2 must block their customers from accessing The Pirate Bay.

    While the reasoning and contents of the verdict has not reached the public yet, the consequences are already clear: Danish Internet users have been censored and cannot visit the world's largest bittorrent tracker - The Pirate Bay. With this Denmark joins the company of Turkey and China, the two and only other countries in the world that blocks their citizens from accessing the site.

    The case was brought to the court by the IFPI who had previously successfully used the same strategy with regards to the Russian music site AllofMP3. The IFPI is fighting a desperate struggle to keep control over how music is distributed, and The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in their eye for a long time.

    On this page you can learn how to circumvent the block. We do not want to let the recording industry decide what information we as Internet users have access to.

    P.S. I did not use a lot of time on this translation, it might have some typos and errors. Also I'm Norwegian and not Danish so please excuse any mistakes.