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Pirate Bay: Court bans help to circumvent block

Pirate Party cannot help users to circumvent block.

The court in The Hague sided with anti-piracy group Brein in ordered the Pirate Party to stop publicizing ways to circumvent the block on the Pirate Bay website in the country. All major Dutch ISPs have been ordered to block access to the notorious BitTorrent website, as have most in the UK.



The Pirate Party also cannot offer a proxy that can let users obtain TPB's links without directly visiting the file sharing site. The group has described the ruling as a slap in the face of the free Internet.

"The judge decided to give the Netherlands another nudge on the gliding scale of censorship," it said. "More and more bits of the internet will have to be censored because they might be used to get access to 'infringing' sites, until eventually most of the internet will be unreachable."

In the UK, the Pirate Party continues to instruct users on how to get around the Pirate Bay blockade in effect in the country. It will be interesting to see if the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) tries to follow Brein and have a court gag them.

Written by: James Delahunty @ 11 May 2012 13:37

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• 6 comments

• Azuran

  Can't gag the entire world.
  

  11.5.2012 14:11 #1

• hearme0

  The Netherlands and the UK........2 of the biggest pussy countries with Stalinistic laws and a backward sense of "freedom" for things like this.
  
  To all those reading THIS ......................www.anonymouse.org
  
  There, circumvented!

  11.5.2012 17:57 #2

• Semperfipal

  Originally posted by hearme0: The Netherlands and the UK........2 of the biggest pussy countries with Stalinistic laws and a backward sense of "freedom" for things like this.
  
  To all those reading THIS ......................www.anonymouse.org
  
  There, circumvented!
  
  
  Thanks for the info. Works great!

  12.5.2012 09:10 #3

• Slash88sazni

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  Yeaiii! Welldone x :D
  

  Romrai88

  1.6.2012 07:38 #4

• tongs007

  knock yourselves out http://about.thepiratecove.co.uk/proxy_list.html

  2.6.2012 05:45 #5

• xboxdvl2

  Quote:The Pirate Party also cannot offer a proxy that can let users obtain TPB's links without directly visiting the file sharing site. The group has described the ruling as a slap in the face of the free Internet.
  if the pirate party was based in another country instead of england and holland they could do what they want.
  
  like its been posted out by members at afterdawn pirate party arn't the only ones that will tell you how to bypass the block.
  

  R.I.P. mr 1990 ford falcon.got myself a 1993 toyota corolla seems to run good.computers still going good.

  2.6.2012 07:13 #6