The Pirate Bay To Live On Longer? Torrent Site Shouldn't Be Blocked, Says ISPs As Censorship Might Be A Bigger Issue
C. de LacyProminent Swedish ISPs are against the idea of blocking The Pirate Bay and involving the court as there would be more danger in causing such censorship than actually solving piracy problem. Parties are instead looking for alternative solutions, but will they?
As TorrentFreaks reported, The Pirate Bay is one of the most notirious sites for piracy, if not the most and oddly enough, Swedish ISPs are against the idea of simply putting it off their cyberspace.
In the past two years, The Pirate Bay has been involved with legal issues regarding copyright against the Swedish Film Industry, Sony Music, Universal Music and a lot more companies involved with the piracy case. The parties have requested Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget to simply block access to The Pirate Bay and another prominent piracy site in the country.
Oddly enough, the rightholders are trying to put the blame to the ISP due to its failure of not blocking the site. It wasn't much of a surprise that the Stockholm District Court have sided with the ISP and junked the idea of putting the ISP on the hotseat.
Now another ISP called Telenor is arguing that blocking The Pirate Bay can cause more harm than actually fix things.
"It is a dangerous path to go down, which forces Internet providers to monitor and evaluate content on the Internet and block websites with illegal content in order to avoid becoming accomplices," the companies write in a joint statement.
Both the two ISPs are hoping that the Court of Appeal will side with them pointing that ISPs only provide internet connection. Being responsible to whichever piracy act that they customers get their selves involved with is simply not under their responsibilities.
"We don't think that tougher legislation and blocking requirements are an effective way to stop the illegal distribution of copyrighted works on the Internet," the ISPs states.
What the ISPs suggest is that media companies coordinate with Internet providers, regardless of which country in order to come up with a better solution that wouldn't put either party in a hairy situation like being liable for a crime that they have no control over like accessing The Pirate Bay and downloading copyright material.
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