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The Pirate Bay Successfully Appeals Italian Block

Posted by timothy on from the by-non-papal-decree dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last month, The Pirate Bay was blocked in Italy. The Swedish tracker appealed the ruling, and have emerged victorious. When they will be back online in Italy is not known, as news of this development is rather fresh."

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  1. Re:I don't see an article by JackieBrown · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.slyck.com/story1771_The_Pirate_Bay_Sucessfully_Appeals_Italian_Block

  2. Re:Why block it? by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Informative
    The problem people have with it is they take COMMERCIAL stuff that costs millions to make, and reproduce it freely, without paying the creators a penny, and pocket the ad revenue.

    TPB do no such thing. They provide a venue for their users to take material (commercial, GPL, Creative Commons, public domain, they don't care at all) and reproduce it freely. All you'll find on the TPB website itself is trackers, and a means to search them. TPB tell you where to get free copies of commercial material, but do not themselves provide that material.

    It's just the same as what Napster used to do. US courts decided that was illegal. Swedish courts disagree.

    As for the ad revenue, I doubt there's too much of that. Remember, their audience consists chiefly of pirates; do you think these people have any qualms about using Adblock Plus?

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