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Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay

Posted by Unknown on from the censorship-is-hip dept.

New submitter swinferno writes "After recent successes in Finland, Italy and Belgium, the Dutch Copyright protection organization BREIN has obtained a verdict that forces two major ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay domains and gives them the right to submit future domains/IP addresses to be blocked in the future without court order."

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  1. Et tu, Netherlands? by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And from a country where a man once gave his life for freedom of speech, no less.

    They once fought the Nazi's, but now they drop to their knees before the entertainment industry.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:Et tu, Netherlands? by kdemetter · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Blocking The Pirate Bay, is also suppressing freedom of speech. There's a blog on it, for example.
      Someone could also use it too hosts it's own creations, and ask feedback on it trough the comments.
      And it could be used to host content criticizing a regime, controversial opinions , etc...

      The Pirate Bay does advocate free speech, though obviously they see it broader ( freedom of information ).

      So any country blocking TPB , is fighting piracy ( though very unsuccessfully ) , and is suppressing freedom of speech at the same time.
      Any file sharer will find a way to work around it, so this does nothing to stop piracy. Torrents and magnet links remain accessible.

      However, actual free speech, like the opinions of users, blog entries, are now inaccessible to the user just wants to visit the site .
      So it does a lot more harm to free speech, then that it does anything against piracy.

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      Slipping shoelaces ?
    2. Re:Et tu, Netherlands? by Moryath · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The start of said world war was when a certain political party came to power on a racist platform, spouting about how "the foreigners" had destroyed a certain country, and proceeded to eliminate any newspaper or news outlet that wasn't a part of their propaganda machine.

      Then they came up with even worse things to do. But it started with propaganda and censorship.