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Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' (fossbytes.com)
"In 2014, many film studios teamed up to force the Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget to block the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay," reports Fossbytes. "It was also said that ISPs should be blocked if they refused to block copyright infringing websites." Now, a Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal has ordered The Pirate Bay and streaming portal Swefilmer to be blocked by Bredbandsbolaget for the next three years. Fossbytes reports: The court overruled the earlier ruling of the District Court, ordering the ISP to employ some technical measures to stop its customers from accessing the website and its different URLs. The court said that a blocking injunction would be proportional "in the light of EU law." Notably, under the EU law, it's possible for the copyright owners to get an injunction against the ISPs whose services are used to pirate content. This verdict is the first of its kind in Sweden, but similar injunctions have been announced in the past in other European nations. This ruling also opens new doorways for the copyright holders to target more torrent websites in the near future. Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde said in a statement to TorrentFreak: "The fight is not about TPB -- the users of TPB can just bypass this blockade easily. It's about the slippery slope it brings."
Meanwhile, a Spanish court order to block something else has caused Cogent to block ThePirateBay for all its customers globally.
Ideally, enforcing copyright infringement shouldn't fall on a torrent indexing site. There is the possibility of legitimate torrents, after all. In fact, TPB could be looked at as a giant honeypot for catching 'pirates'.
But that's too difficult, which apparently is a justification for ignoring what's right.
If things like this and other censorship were to provoke higher demand for and faster development of mesh networking, I would have to consider it to be a good thing.
given that The Pirate Bay has a .onion address that is still working no matter what,
such kind of block could actually increase awareness of Tor and increase its usage.
(Which in turn is good for Tor : The more the traffic, and the more the relay nodes, the better).
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What's the reference to three years doing here? Is this supposed to be fixed by then? Perm block and transfer to a legal effort such as what happened to Napster and FourSquare please.
The only way we're going to have a chance at fighting against tyranny and big brother is if we gather together in one place for the purpose of fighting these thugs. I moved to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project for the purpose of pursuing liberty in our life time. It's going to take years- but we have a chance at fixing a lot of issues at the state level in the USA and your not going to find enough people willing to take the next step if we're all spread out. By gathering together in one or two places around the world we have a chance.
I would support a European-style Free State Project given the challenges which need to be overcome in an international migration movement (not to say there are not some movers internationally for the Free State Project), but for now the Free State Project is the only alive, active, and succeeding movement that's beginning to claw back some freedoms. Now the project itself isn't doing anything other than promoting the migration- but the people within, associated, or who moved because of it are doing a lot. We're getting liberty-loving reps elected at the state and local levels, winning some NH supreme court rulings, getting positive-impact laws passed, etc. This is the only way we're going to be able to kill copy"right" and the tyranny that exists currently. Those want more risk in their life move here- to NH- cause we've got the movement that can and is making that happen.
http://www.freestateproject.org/ - the project which promoted a migration of liberty-lovers to one state
http://www.shiresociety.com/ - one of dozens of offshoots of the FSP, Inc (some people don't like the FSP, inc but we all support the FSP's stated mission of more liberty)
http://www.freekeene.com/ - liberty news and happenings around the shire
http://www.freetalklive.com/ - the largest liberty oriented talk radio show in the world, based out of New Hampshire
Left with a vee-pee-en. Doc says its only temporary, but the meds are pretty pricey.
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
Things like these might just push IPV6 forward :D...let them block that.
Can someone tell my why this hasn't been solved with distributed trackers? Make it where there millions of pirate bay trackers all over the world?
Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
AC onion routing seems to be trackable by US federal law enforcement with per case funding.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I'm working on attacking the problem from a religious rights angle. I believe that freedom to interact with culture as you see fit free from government restriction is good as a religious belief, so it goes.
This is such a minor hit, and they survive the big ones. Burden of proof is well on the censorship side, if they went away today pirate bay would live in-memory for thousands of years.
In any case sounds more like a few Swedes will have to type in thepiratebay.ee to get their torrents, for a week or two, until the censors give up blocking those 600 participants..
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
What freedoms have you lost? And the freedom of demanding you are entitled to take any copyrighted material you want for free. And you should change "Free State Project" to "The Whiny Asshole Project". Your bloated sense of entitlement is breath taking. Get an education. Get a job. Make a contribution to society instead of claiming you have "lost your freedoms" because the creators of copyrighted material have the gall to claim ownership of their work and heaven forbid earn a few dollars for their efforts.
How quickly they morphed from a protector of citizen sharing and privacy rights into another state enforcer of MPAA dictates.
Remember how TPB used to post legal threats and take down requests from the content owners as well as their responses generally containing swearing and taunts about how Sweden protects them?
This is VERY toothless. Just blocked in DNS, so change DNS server to 8.8.8.8 and you are good to go.
None of the supposed cases have been *proven* to have been due to weaknesses in the design of the overlay or its software.
Yes, there are design weaknesses in certain areas. Some are being exploited, some aren't. Some exploits apply to certain usage models, some don't.
Yes, you must use the tools correctly, know what you're doing, know what they're good and not good at.
No different than anything you do online with any tool today.
However, compared to the current naked use of bittorrent over clearnet, even over vpn's which aren't even remotely safe in practice...
These anonymous encrypted overlay networks are a *major* improvement.
Think of it this way...
Torrenting copyrighted material is a civil offense, and rarely, a relatively small criminal one.
These overlay networks host all manner of controversial political free speech, drugs, guns, child porn, cards, fraud, markets, etc... all severe top ranking crimes in some places.
Many of them have been running on their single central servers for years.
If those aren't being taken down, you can bet boring old distributed bittorrent over those nets is going to be effectively immune.
Go and migrate. Your "free" network will be just made illegal, the tools banned and users incarcerated. Just in the news, since yesterday in Italy publishing or linking to anything authorities decide is "fake news" from your website or blog is now a criminal offence that can be punished by heavy fines or prison time. It is done. The internet in Italy is now essentially dead and all it took was a signature.
Are you serious?
> attacking the problem from a religious rights angle
You nailed the problem exactly! Religion, as in observing the commandemnts given by the G-d of Abraham, which are not only meant for his Chosen Nation, but for all people of all times. You see:
Film and music piracy is an active form of anti-semitism and thus, a heinous crime! Hollywood movies are entirely created by ethnically and culturally hebrew people (who are often also religiously observing jews). They are the studio financing moguls, they are the scriptwriters, the directors, various prcoducers/managers and even form the majority of movie actors. Yet, the gentile take and consume what jewish inventiveness produces, but forget to pay for movie theatre tickets, DVD discs or streaming subscriptions. Is that OK for you?
Meanwhile in the music industry, the jewish people don't usually perform on pop stage, since they consider "popular music" too shallow, they are more interested in performing classical music. On the other hand, the music labels are also fully run by jewish investors, directors and managers. Such success makes the generally less talented gentile-kind angry and they take what jews produced, without paying anything.
Such a situation is not materially different from a pogrom, e.g. the "Crystalnacht" when germans broke jewish shop windows and took whatever they wanted, without paying. We all know where that path led to eventually and nobody wants history to repeat itself in such a way. Therefore the gentiles should also heed the Ten Commandments, which says "Thou shall not steal!"
Of course, there's a downside to having a lot of liberty-loving people located in one small geographical area...
Fascist #1: "Nuke 'em from orbit."
Fascist #2: "It's the only way to be sure."
And a demonstrably unstable individual who doesn't tolerate opinions differing from his own currently has access to the US nuclear launch codes.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
That's the point.
TOR isn't the ultimate secure choice.
It's just more secure than all the alternatives. Diss it all you want, as long as you don't show anything better, you're just rambling.
I bought it on vinyl. I bought it on tape. I bought it yet again on CD. And now you want to say I "stole" it because I downloaded a few FLAC files?
Suck my cock.
For free.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
It's like holding up a sign that says "Totally nothing illegal here investigate the hell out of me!"
The Pirate Bay it self doesn't hold any copyrighted item. It just lists torrent hashes, and comments and metadata about the content associated with those hashes
(again, the content isn't hosted there. Only the comments and the hashes).
In several jurisdiction, that's not even considered illegal.
You're not using Tor to access illegal material (say non consensual porn, like child porn ; or to access a platform to buy banned goods like weapons and drugs)
You're using tor to get around a blockade.
That's completely fine and that's what Tor was designed for (getting around blockade, as much anonymously as possible. E.g.: to circumvent censorship like China's great firewall).
The more people use tor for anything, the better the chance that tor will be considered normal traffic on the internet, instead of the tell-tale sign of a criminal sharing child abuse.
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