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More web-blocks ordered in Europe

By | Published on Tuesday 31 March 2015

Kickass Torrents

Good news for fans of web-blocks, the European courts are increasingly block-happy, with recent injunctions seeing The Pirate Bay being blocked in Spain and KickassTorrents in Denmark.

Spain was one of the first countries to consider forcing internet service providers to block access to copyright infringing websites with its so called Sinde Law, though it’s taken some time for the web-blocking to properly begin, whereas here in the UK, where web-blocking was all but removed from the Digital Economy Act in 2010, web-block injunctions have become a frequent event.

But ISPs in Spain are now having to block the always controversial Pirate Bay following a ruling in a Madrid court, this following the news earlier in the year that Vodafone was already blocking the site, albeit after getting confused by a bit of government communication, so that it eventually unblocked it. Only to now block it again. Good times.

In Denmark action by the Rights Alliance has resulted in twelve piracy sites, including KickassTorrents, being blocked by net firms there. Web-blocks have been common in Denmark for years now.

Though I’m obligated by journalistic convention to point out that web-blocks are limited in their effectiveness by the fact that proxy services provide ways around the blockades, and are usually easily found with a simple Google search. Yes, it’s all Google’s fault again. Kick ass.



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