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| ISP Refuses To Block The Pirate Bay Posted: 17 Jul 2011 04:41 AM PDT
The latest in a growing line of lawsuits against service providers worldwide, the legal action demands that Elisa, one of Finland’s largest ISPs, should block all subscriber access to The Pirate Bay. Elisa, however, aren’t going to give in so easily. Despite CIAPC (better known locally as TTVK) and IFPI’s claims that blocking The Pirate Bay is the only practical solution to slow down piracy, Elisa have lodged a reply at the District Court which rejects the demands of the music groups. While Elisa indicate that they have no fundamental objection to assisting with the fight against unlawful file-sharing, Elisa Senior Vice President Panu Lehti says the lawsuit’s demands are unacceptable. “The fact that the requirement [to block TPB] applies to only one Internet service provider is unreasonable,” says Lehti. Singling out one ISP for legal action is the usual modus operandi for the entertainment industries, especially in website blocking cases. CIAPC and IFPI selected Elisa because they have proportionally more subscribers using The Pirate Bay than any other ISP.
The industry groups counter by saying they have been left with no other choices after the criminal conviction of the Pirate Bay admins following their November 2010 appeal failed to close down the site. Instead, the number of Finns using the site only increased. According to the industry groups The Pirate Bay is the preferred online location for Finns to access illicit music. This makes it one of the most popular sites in the country, and one which has broken into the top 30 most-visited sites. "The development of a legitimate online market in Finland will not be successful if illegal services such as the Pirate Bay can continue to operate," says producer representative Lauri Rechardt. Others believe the reverse is true, i.e build the legal services and “they shall come.” This week, Johan Lagerlöf the CEO and Co-Founder of X5 Music Group in Sweden, has been speaking about the success enjoyed by Spotify, the ‘pirate-killing’ service that has just launched in the US. “Spotify has had the biggest impact on the Scandinavian music market since the launch of the CD,” Lagerlöf told Hypebot in a Q&A. “Spotify is currently the biggest single revenue source for the music industry and is estimated to be over 3 times bigger than iTunes in Scandinavia. Despite that, digital downloads grew 17% in Sweden last year compared to 3% in the US.” “Piracy for music has almost stopped.” |
| Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:33 AM PDT
This week it turned out that not all Internet providers were complying with this second court order, which prompted the Sardinian prosecutor to sue these ISPs for aiding and abetting criminal copyright infringement. But even if all ISPs block BTjunkie there are still several ways to access the site from Italy, through a proxy site for example. When BTjunkie’s owner heard that Italy had blocked his site he decided to register the domain proxyitalia.com. "I'm disappointed with the Italian judicial system," he told TorrentFreak at the time. "We will do our best to fight for Italian people's right to communicate." A few hours later the new domain was hosting a general purpose proxy service which allows Italians to browse the Internet from a foreign IP-address. The added benefit is of course that censored websites such as BTjunkie and The Pirate Bay are readily accessible. Or were accessible, we should say. Yesterday the Italian authorities decided to step up their anti-piracy actions and block access to the proxy site as well. The Guardia di Finanza (GdF), the Italian police tasked with cybercrime cases, took out the site after a request from Cagliari deputy prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia. According to the authorities proxyitalia.com was acting illegally by allowing Italians access to BTjunkie and The Pirate Bay. This far-reaching intervention means that practically all proxy sites and VPN services located outside of Italy can be branded as illegal. Following the logic of the Italian prosecutor means that the authorities will have to add thousands of sites and services to their blacklist in order to fully block the two torrent sites. Even then, it takes only a few hours to set up a new proxy site, so this cat and mouse game will never end. BTjunkie’s owner told TorrentFreak that he’s in utter disbelief following the latest developments in Italy. He’s not going to give up yet though, and will try once more to help out BTjunkie’s Italian users. “I’m going to offer the same type of proxy site, but hosted at Google apps this time. Let’s see if the police will ban Google’s IP-addresses as well,” he told us. More info on the new proxy site will become available in the days to come. Source: Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block |
During May the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the Finnish branch of IFPI announced that they had 
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