Swedish ISP to appeal Pirate Bay cut-off verdict
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The Swedish ISP that was ordered by a court in August to block The Pirate Bay has reportedly decided to appeal the verdict.
Last month TPB was taken offline after Stockholm’s district court ordered its bandwidth supplier - Black Internet - to stop serving the BitTorrent website’s traffic or face a penalty of 500,000 kronor (£43,000) a day.
Black Internet’s CEO Victor Möller, who immediately following the shuttering said the company wouldn’t appeal the court decision, told IDG yesterday that he had a change of heart about the verdict.
"This is a very important question for all ISPs and we can't just lay down," he said.
Black Internet was forced to pull the plug on TPB on 24 August. Unsurprisingly, TPB quickly relocated and was temporarily resuscitated for some users after the site’s operators grabbed a new web connection from another web service provider.
Möller initially explained to Computer Sweden why he had backed away from the notion of appealing the verdict, citing the amount of time, money and effort he would have to commit to the cause as his reasons for not returning to court.
"The district court made a very controversial decision. The entire ISP business needs some clarity in this matter. A door has been opened and we don't know what's behind it," he said yesterday.
Black Internet’s decision to appeal comes days after The Pirate Bay’s suitor, Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF), was booted off the Swedish stock exchange after being found guilty of “serious infringements”.
Despite that major setback, GGF’s boss Hans Pandeya insisted that his £4.7m plan to buy the website would still happen.
He had originally circled 27 August as the date for completion of the acquisition, before Swedish stock exchange authorities pissed on his chips. ®
COMMENTS
lister01
In the meantime EMI funds its anti-piracy campaign by relreleasing two versions of all the albums you already own by the Beatles. And round and round we go.
Then..
"then they pirated over USENET
then they pirated over centralized P2P
then they pirated over de-centralized P2P"
Then they went back to usenet.
Then they discovered darknets and governments demanded they be shut down and realised they couldn't, and that the people who operate them are remarkably hard to track down.. and probably live in china.. and there's no way to filter them without breaking everything.
We'll get there eventually.
LOL
all I can do is laugh, so one day they may FINALLY managed to take down a site like TBP, then several more just pop up. Its not going to do anything and its going to cost them lots of time money and effort, all the while pirate joe still downloads his files from what ever the method of the month is.
First the pirated by copying cassette tapes
then they pirated by copying disc's
then they pirated by sharing hard drives/networks
then they pirated over BBS's
then they pirated over the WWW
then they pirated over email
then they pirated over FTP
then they pirated over USENET
then they pirated over centralized P2P
then they pirated over de-centralized P2P
now all of these methods are still in use to this day (well maybe not cassette tapes so much buy only because technology has moved on). All that's ever going to happen is more and more way's will crop up for people to share their files ether illegally or legally and people will use them. Not one of them has ever been successfully eliminated, its just got easier for Joe public to find what he's looking for.
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