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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."
The writing has been on the wall for at least a decade.
Your supposed last stand on clearnet and your stupid VPN's and shells are all doomed to failure.
Because they can find you and shut you down, and that's easier than your pithy little whines and protests.
You should have all moved onto the overlays years ago.
That's the ONLY place where you'll ever be able to safely exist with a great big fuck you to them for the decades necessary for global mindsets to change.
I2P, Tor + OnionCat, Freenet, CJDNS, MaidSafe, etc, lots of options including....
https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/building-a-new-tor-that-withstands-next-generation-state-surveillance/
You research it, download it, configure and run it and figure it out.
It's all good.
And it's the ONLY way you will EVER survive long term in safety.... and be able to impart any change for the good up against these legacy asshole MAFIAA motherfuckers and their government buddies.