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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."

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  1. Bold move by eebra82 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fighting this new law is not only important to the people of Denmark, but also to the rest of the European Union. European politicians tend to agree on many issues and it takes only one country to influence the rest.

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  2. Re:Possible interim solution: by meringuoid · · Score: 4, Insightful
    wonder what will thepiratebay will do when the ISP is ordered to block the IP:s, insteed of only fu*king up the DNS?

    Get another IP? It's not as if it's hard to do; spammers seem to manage. Let the Danish courts play the same game of whack-a-mole that mail admins do.

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  3. What Government Intervention? by andersh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They won't censor the Mohamed Cartoons that Muslims find offensive, but they'll go out of their way to censor a BitTorrent web site?

    What rubbish! The Danish government has no responsibility for what the press does in a free country. As long as the press is not in violation of Danish law they're free to publish what they want.

    And if you didn't read the facts it was the IFPI that brought the [Pirate Bay] case to court. That's not the Danish government either - so you are way out of line.