Dutch court bans Pirate Party links to The Pirate Bay
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[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18016819[/URL]
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[B]The Netherlands' Pirate Party has been ordered to stop publicising ways to circumvent blocks to The Pirate Bay.[/B]
The ruling by a court in the Hague follows a complaint by the anti-piracy group Brein.
It had said that the political party was helping users overcome a previous ruling that had ordered two of the country's biggest internet service
providers to prohibit access to TPB.
A subsequent order instructed a further five ISPs to block access to the site
The rulings mark the latest action to prevent users from illegally sharing films, books, music and other copyrighted material via TPB's magnet links.
At the end of April the UK also ordered several of its ISPs to prevent users from accessing the Swedish site.
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Proxies
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[B]The court also upheld an order banning the Dutch Pirate Party from offering a proxy to let users obtain TPB's links without directly visiting the
file-sharing site's pages.[/B]
The original order had spurred on the Pirate Party to post suggestions for alternative ways to access TPB.
A message posted on the [URL="https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/brein-wins-democracy-loses/"]Dutch Pirate Party's homepage[/URL] described the most recent rulings as "a slap in the face for the free internet".
"The judge decided to give the Netherlands another nudge on the gliding scale of censorship," it said.
"More and more bits of the internet will have to be censored because they might be used to get access to 'infringing' sites, until eventually most of
the internet will be unreachable."
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UK mirror
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Brein could not be reached for comment and the organisation's website appeared to have been taken offline following the verdict.
The UK's Pirate Party continues to offer a proxy-based workaround to TPB despite the High Court ordering five ISPs to prevent access to the site on
30 April.
The party's campaigns officer, Andy Halsall, told the BBC that it had received two million hits to the service over a recent 24-hour period.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - which has pursued TPB in the UK - declined to comment about whether it planned to follow Brein's lead and
take similar action against the local Pirate Party.
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It's funny because TPB isn't even the biggest player within the torrent community and never has been (iirc). It's just the poster child due to it managing to stay up no matter what and actively giving authority the finger.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;35940581]It's funny because TPB isn't even the biggest player within the torrent community and never has been (iirc). It's just the poster child due to it managing to stay up no matter what and actively giving authority the finger.[/QUOTE]
I've found a super reliable site that always has everything I need, never any viruses and always seeded. I love it, and I think it (might) have a larger database then TPB.
Didn't they just find out the judge behind the initial decision was corrupt as shit?
This only stops a small percentage of people.
[QUOTE=Occlusion;35940747]Didn't they just find out the judge behind the initial decision was corrupt as shit?[/QUOTE]
Have they? You got a link?
Forgive me if it's a thread here on the front page of SH, I'll be honest when I say this is the first thread I've looked at this morning. :v:
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;35941811]Have they? You got a link?
Forgive me if it's a thread here on the front page of SH, I'll be honest when I say this is the first thread I've looked at this morning. :v:[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-censorship-judge-is-corrupt-claims-pirate-party-founder-120512/[/URL]
"This week yet another court order was handed down in Europe with the aim of censoring The Pirate Bay. The ruling forbids the Dutch Pirate Party from not only running a direct proxy, but also telling people how to circumvent an earlier court ordered blockade. However, according to Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge, the judge in the case has a history of corruption relating to another file-sharing case he presided over in the Netherlands."
I believe that is what he was talking about.
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