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APR
2012
Posts for Filtering
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APR
2012
Lawsuit BREIN against major Telco’s to block access to The Pirate Bay
Last Thursday, the Dutch lawsuit regarding the anti-piracy foundation BREIN against major Telco’s KPN, UPC, T-Mobile and Tele2 took place. BREIN demands that KPN, UPC, T-Mobile and Tele2 block their subscriber’s access to The Pirate Bay through an IP and DNS blockade. Previously, BREIN also filed a lawsuit against the ISP’s Ziggo and XS4ALL successfully and the ISP’s had to block the access to...02
MAR
2012
The Pirate Bay replaces torrents by magnet links
Administrators of The Pirate Bay have announced that the platform has stopped offering links to torrent files. According to Telecompaper.com, they consider torrents to be a "waste of time and space.” Instead, the Pirate Bay now offers so-called magnet links that refer to a unique code on each torrent detail page. The move comes in response to a growing number of court decisions...17
FEB
2012
ECJ: No general monitoring responsibility for social networks
Online social networks cannot be forced to install a general filtering system to preventively monitor whether its users exchange unauthorised copies of copyright protected work. This would be a disproportionate measure that limits freedom of enterprise of the platform and infringes the privacy of its users, according to Europe's highest court on Thursday. With this preliminary ruling, the...03
FEB
2012