[pp.int.general] !! Denmark censors Internet, blocks The Pirate Bay

[Ole Husgaard]

Hi,

Danm, this is coming just now when I'm down with the flu.

Most likely they are doing this the same way they did to get 
allofmp3.com blocked. In Denmark it is quite easy to get a preliminary 
injunction. In the allofmp3.com case they got a preliminary injunction 
against Tele2 (which isn't one of the major ISPs in Denmark) with a 
letter from IFPI Russia full of lies. Looks like Tele2 didn't know about 
the legal status of allofmp3.com, so they didn't refute the letter from 
IFPI russia.

The relevant court document in danish can be found here: 
http://www.dr.dk/NR/rdonlyres/EF2AAB7A-0E04-4963-963A-463CD7550D72/361965/tele2_ke.pdf.

Right now it is trivial to get around the filter. All you have to do is 
not use the DNS servers of danish ISPs who lie when the address is 
looked up. But it is really scary to see that other kinds of filtering 
is also discussed in the court document, and that one of the other 
filtering methods is also said to be useful for filtering radical 
political speech (Page 7. In danish: "rabiate politiske budskaber").

The normal procedure after a preliminary injunction is that a real court 
case investigating the merits of the injunction is started after a few 
weeks, but this has never happened.

Best Regards,

Ole Husgaard.


Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) wrote:
> Newsflash, capitalize on this as appropriate:
>
> IFPI has sued a major ISP in Denmark - and won - forcing them to block 
> access to The Pirate Bay for their users. This censorship places 
> Denmark in the same league as Cuba, North Korea, Thailand and China.
>
> Reference:
> *http://www.computerworld.dk/art/44049?a=fp_1&i=0 
> <http://www.computerworld.dk/art/44049?a=fp_1&i=0>*
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