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Finnish court orders ISPs to disconnect filesharers
A FINNISH COURT has issued orders to cut off three users of The Pirate Bay immediately, making plans for a 'three strikes and you are out' rule in the UK look weak by comparison.
The order follows a lawsuit from The Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) in May that saw it, and the local branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), complain that five Finnish internet connections allegedly were making thousands of music tracks available illegally.
According to Torrentfreak the CIAPC took this information to court and asked for an order that would prevent these individuals from continuing their activities.
Now, under Section 60c of Finland's Copyright Act, the court has granted CIAPC injunctions in three of the cases. This means that Elisa, one of the largest ISPs in Finland, is now required to disconnect these users by law, without even any "first strike" type warning, making this the first straight internet cut-off case that we've seen.
Quoted on Torrentfreak, Antti Kotilainen, the MD of CIAPC said, "Many might believe that by using the Pirate Bay they can not get caught, when in fact the result can be they have to pay several hundred euros in compensation."
Seperately, the police in Denmark are proposing that its parliament pass a law that would make it impossible for users to surf the internet anonymously. The idea is supposedly meant to help investigate terrorism, but we all know what that means.
In the proposal, locations providing open internet connections, like cafes and libraries, would have to confirm a user's identity with some form of official ID before letting them get online, the Huffington Post reports.
We are with Hamlet on this one, there is definitely something rotten in Denmark. µ
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Fools! Anyone with a modicum of p2p knowledge should know that DC++ and Public torrent sites like the Pirate Bay are not secure and you are asking to get caught. The only way to avoid this kind of thing happening to you to to use Private torrent sites and/or newsgroups. However on this note I agree with the first post that the internet should be policed but not governed.
Quote from SANS newsletter:
[Editor's Note (Murray): It is now clear that, however Internet libertarians may feel about it, we need government to police the Internet. However, we do not want the police to govern the Internet.
I favor procedures that involve the courts.]
Hal, you have no clue...
Now they cut-off "pirates", tomorrow they can cut-off anyone that is "inconvenient".
Copyrights infringement will become just an excuse for all sorts of violations...
first of all, they were not accused/sentenced of piratebay usage, but Direct Connect (DC,DC++). (might actually read the source article maybe?)
Second, the sentences won't hold as Finland has always been keen on following EU/UN legislation and guidelines and those have deemed internet cut-offs a violation of basic human rights. And the sentence affects the whole household of the sentencees, which -by finnish law- cannot happen.
This has been a long time in coming. Finally!
Couldn't they order a block on all ports except 80, 443, 25 instead. Or can peer2peer traffic use those ports as well?
This would be interesting to see, adding authentication to a system that has been reported time and again to be fundamentally lacking exactly that. Well what can you say, good luck with the retrofit guys!
So does this mean, that everyone in said household will loose their internet connection and not just the person who shared the music ??? Way to go copyright police, way to go.
I though the UN declared having internet access is a human right. Apparently not in Finland.
and the new world order. Big brother is watching you.
The more pirates they prosecute the better.