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Swedish Court Says ISPs Can't Be Forced To Block Pirate Bay
The Next Web reports that a district court in Sweden has ruled that it cannot simply force ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, despite its role in large-scale copyright violation. A coalition of copyright holders including Sony and a group representing the Swedish film industry wanted the court to force Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget to curtail access, as courts have done in various cases around the world.
The court found that Bredbandsbolaget couldn’t be held responsible for the copyright infringement of its customers’ actions while using the service as it doesn’t constitute a crime under Swedish law, according to the report. As such, it’s also not liable for any of the fines.
While it could still be overturned by a higher authority appeals court, the group representing the copyright holders will have to pay the ISPs legal costs thus far, which is more than $150,000 according to TorrentFreak. (And here's TorrentFreak's report.) Update: 11/29 15:55 GMT by T : Oops -- sorry, we've mentioned this once already.
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"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
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Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Can you?
Something I just noticed today in USA, Transmissions default port 51413 (which IS open in my router) no longer connects to any trackers. I had to use a random port and set the router to use UPNP.
king of the dupes and other pointless posts timothy strikes again!
Dupe: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/11/27/1545239/swedish-court-isps-cant-be-forced-to-ban-the-pirate-bay
There's a search box at the top right hand corner of the screen. USE IT!
You'd think that Slashdot would have built a dupe detector by now, with all the dupes posted by lazy "editors".
Rather than trying to stop TPB and crying like babies over lost dollars to piracy, why don't you just f-ing consider the reason people are using sites like TPB? People are definitely willing to pay for digital content, but I suspect many are unwilling to wait for two years for that "new" movie to show up on their stream or pay $13 on Amazon for a copy of some movie from 1994. They're getting better, but 1) that price is ridiculous 2) is the process of paying and downloading painless and 3) is it a DRM-free file that I can play using a normal video player, no special nothing required? I did not bother to check because I'm not fucking paying $13 for a 21 year old movie. Get it right and I'll be happy to pay for quality downloads. Until then, keep crying.
Would this ruling not be able to affect similar lawsuits in the rest of the EU?
It's only a search and share platform, but none of the content is hosted at The Pirate Bay itselft.
So if providers would have to block The Pirate Bay, then they'd have to block google et.al. as well ..
This law is the same as holding car retailers responsible for traffic violations by consumers
It's a dire indictment for a media outlet when their own editors no longer read it...
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Other courts have noticed that Pirate Bay is called PIRATE Bay, and it is designed and marketed for a specific purpose, an unlawful one. A gun just a priced of metal, right? Under laws the laws of most countries, it's a piece of metal with a specific intended use, and it's regulated based on that.
One might argue that copyright terms are too long in many countries; you could even make an argument against copyright protection at all (though the argument doesn't fair well in the face of facts). You can't make a coherent argument that Pirate Bay isn't for pirating - for violating the -legal- rights of others. That makes it inherently different from Google or any general search engine.
sure you can
100% of several hundred gigs of data that are downloaded on a day to day basis are distributed via bittorrent. 100% of all pirated software y download y use google for and not torrent as those are mostly very slow to download. .. in the end this is not about 'piracy' at all, but just a very big abuse of the legal system for cheap publicity to the copyright industry
Who's up for a petition or another "beta" like spam to remove that idiot Timothy so we stop getting more useless shit from him ?
It's not a dupe, it's a double whammy. They can't force ISPs to block piratebay, and they have to pay their legal costs.
Maybe instead of spending all our time complaining about dupes, we could instead use one post to laugh at them for being unable to block TPB and the other one to laugh about their having to pay the legal fees.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
And have.