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Italy May Censor Torrent Sites
An anonymous reader writes "Following a Pirate Bay block more than a year ago, Italy continues its attempts to censor torrent sites. The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that copyright holders can now force ISPs to block BitTorrent sites, even if they are hosted outside Italy. The torrent sites which 'hold' copyrighted materials are accused of taking part in criminal activity. It seems someone should enlighten Italian jurists about technology."
Not to me at least. I've never met an (Euro-born) Italian that didn't have a pole up his ass or didn't think they knew better than anyone else.
There is a war going on for your mind.
The only thing it *will* do is to slowly erode yet another form of legal freedom
Or it will simply erode even more respect for the law. I certainly don't regard IP laws as legitimate any more; perhaps we're going to get a more Italian attitude towards the law spread around.
That said one is hardly surprised by the Italian legal system bowing to the MAFIAA...
Why is his post a troll? I think the retarted like ignorance applies more to the drooling idiots who are incapable of doing simple arithmetic and understand that more going out than is coming in means they'll eventually go overdrawn. I've never been overdrawn in my life and you want to know why? Because I can add an subtract. Perhaps you and your idiot friends should learn those rather useful skills.
So let me explain it to you. A company that sells to the general market products that can be used for crimes is not liable for their use. A company that happens to unknowingly sell to a lot of criminals is not liable for their use of the goods it sells. A company that knowingly sells goods to criminals is fully liable for their use insofar as it has knowingly facilitated a crime.
From that description, you should be able to grasp why The Pirate Bay and search engines are treated quite differently.
I'm not saying that, the courts are. Sure you can always go the "but we are like google" route, but I think its perfectly clear what The Pirate Bay's purpose is.