Pirate Bay Block Violates Democratic Principles, ISP Says

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Norway’s largest Internet provider ‘Telenor’ was dragged to court by the movie and music industries last month, after it refused an earlier request to disable customer access to The Pirate Bay. Today, Telenor explains why it didn’t cave in to the legal pressure and says it wants the courts to rule on the issue instead.

Pirate Bay Block Violates Democratic Principles, ISP Says | TorrentFreak

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he music industry group demanded that the ISP should block access to The Pirate Bay within 14 days - or face legal action.

more nonsense, tpb is going legal anyways, so this is a waste of time (the court can fine them for wasting the court's time )

“If Telenor were considered complicit in any illegal activities online, we would have to block access to websites and customers on any suspicion of illegal activity. Telenor would then act as some sort of private police or private censorship authority, which would be very worrisome in light of important issues such as freedom of speech,” Telenor writes.

agreed

It is good to see that an ISP like Telenor is willing to go to court to protect their rights and those of their customers, instead of taking the easy route and giving to the wishes of the copyright lobby.

i wouldn't go so far to say that this isp is for rights protection, imo they primarily want to protect themselves from any organization trying to dictate their politics - if they allowed the anti-p2p's to do it, one may wonder who will be next to demand new restrictions from them - one fact that goes for this isp is that they have substantial financial backup and therefore aren't afraid of lawsuits or costly trials