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Music Biz Gives Up Trying to Block Pirate Bay in Norway
Had been trying to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to prevent customer from being able to access BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay. It’s been a long time coming, but at last TONO , a Norwegian royalty collecting group founded back in 1928, and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have given up their bid to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to prevent subscribers from being able to access BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay. The affair first began in earnest last March when Telenor refused to block the Pirate Bay, reminding the copyright holders that “ISPs are not complicit in the actions of its customers on the Internet.” Then in November the country’s Norway’s Asker and Bærum District Court ruled in favor of Telenor , finding that it is not illegally contributing to any copyright violations by The Pirate Bay and that there is subsequently no legal basis for forcing it to block the site.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay founders get post-Sweden election appeal date
Court says wait ’til leaves turn brown The Pirate Bay appeal finally has a tentative autumn 2010 date set for the founders of the infamous BitTorrent tracker website.… ?
Continue reading »Italians Circumvent Pirate Bay Blockade
BitTorrent tracker site BTjunkie sees 50% jump in Italian visitor traffic. It was back in early August of 2008 that it a judge from the Court of Bergamo had first ordered Italian ISPs to begin blocking customer access to BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay after complaints from FIMI, the Italian version of the RIAA, of copyright infringement. The blockade was later lifted on appeal a few months later, but the FIMI persevered and ultimately prevailed this past September.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay’s VPN Service Goes Public
Ipredator offers safe, encrypted communication between you and the Internet for only $7 bucks a month. Last March I mentioned how BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay would begin Beta testing a new VPN service called Ipredator which would allow file-sharers to download copyrighted material anonymously. The name Ipredator is a spin on the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into affect last April and forces ISPs to divulge the name of customers suspected by copyright holders of infringement.
Continue reading »Oldest BitTorrent Site Knocked Down, But Not Out
Founded in 2003, UK-based FileSoup was one of the original torrent sites. Online for longer than even the mighty Pirate Bay, the site developed a great reputation and a warm community. After many years of keeping a low profile, on Monday 27th July 2009, police and the MPAA-funded anti-piracy group FACT conducted a raid on the home address of the owner – known to all in the torrent community as ‘TheGeeker’.
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