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Swedish Court: ISPs Can't Be Forced To Ban the Pirate Bay (thelocal.se)

Posted by Soulskill on from the get-out-of-here-with-that-nonsense dept.

An anonymous reader writes: After years of rulings against The Pirate Bay around Europe, a Swedish court has now ruled that the country's ISPs can't be forced to block access to the torrent indexer. The case centers around copyright holders and an ISP called Bredbandsbolaget. The ISP refused to comply with demands that music pirates be cut off from internet access. When rightsholders couldn't get traction that way, they added Bredbandsbolaget to their list of targets. The court found that the ISP does not "participate" in copyright infringement carried out by its subscribers, and is thus not liable for any damages incurred.

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  1. Re:Nowhere but Sweden by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bullshit

    It is impossible to stop someone from accessing any site they want.

    You are technically inept.

    The easiest way to copy music illegally is to download a video from YouTube and use ffmpeg to strip out the music.

    You going to propose that YouTube gets blocked?

    google.com has the most links to infringing copies in the world. Block them.