Danish ISP Tele2 Challenges Pirate Bay Blockade

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."

Comments

Re:Guilty As Charged

[andersh]

In that case, when do we see Google banned (specifically, Google cache)?

I did say probably because it would have to proved in a court of law. Not everything is as clear cut as you or I would like it. Even if I am a lawyer.

blocking such things is done in deference to the victims

I only mentioned it to give you some insight into the way our countries work. It's certainly not done out of deference - it's simply censorship regardless. No court ever ruled the sites on the list are illegal. "First they came for..."

IP and copyright violations are civil acts, not criminal ones

Sorry, that's only in the US. European law can be very different to what you are accustomed to.

TPB, even if all it ever did was IP violation, contains zero evidence of any crime

Again that's not really true according to the example I just told you about (napster.no). Even linking is considering illegal here now. Not that I personally agree with it. They have yet to challenge access to The Pirate Bay here in Norway, but they have a law firm working on it.

create bad precedents

Nope, that's not the way the Scandinavian Civil Law system works. The way precedents work in the Anglo-American Common Law system is not applicable here. It's not really a significant ruling, it's not even a High Court ruling. It can easily be overruled and interpreted away by the higher courts.

Re:What Government Intervention?

[Hatta]

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.

Replace "press" with "search engine" in that and it applies quite well the Pirate Bay.

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

The court isn't the Danish government?

- so you are way out of line.

No, your government is being hypocritical. But really, all governments are hypocritical. This is a relatively small inconsistancy on the scale of government hypocrisy.