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Thread: Court Orders French ISPs to Block (Dead) Torrent Sites

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    Court Orders French ISPs to Block (Dead) Torrent Sites

    The French music industry is continuing its efforts to make torrent sites unavailable. After obtaining a blocking injunction against The Pirate Bay, it has now managed to do the same with LimeTorrents, TorrentHound, TorrentReactor, and TorrentFunk. The effect of the blockade will be relatively limited though, as two of the sites have already shut down.

    Blocking pirate sites has become a common tool for copyright holders to address piracy concerns, especially in Europe.

    This is also true in France, where The Pirate Bay was one of the first targets two years ago, but not the last.

    This weekend, news broke that the French Civil Society of Phonographic Producers (SCPP) has managed to obtain a new injunction to stop local ISPs from providing access to four new torrent sites. The order covers LimeTorrents, TorrentHound, TorrentReactor, TorrentFunk and nearly two dozen dedicated proxy sites.

    NextINpact reports that the music association was granted the injunction several months ago, but it has only just been made public.

    The order states that the four sites are assisting users to access copyrighted works without permission. According to the court, this was clear “because the term torrents refers to an illegal downloading activity.”

    The latter point goes quite far since there are also plenty of legitimate uses for torrents. Nonetheless, the injunction stands.

    In its defense, Internet provider Free argued that blocking sites was ineffective. While the court acknowledged that it wasn’t a silver bullet, it noted that it’s one of the few tools rightsholders have to address the problem.

    The latest decision also includes a crucial difference compared to previous orders. The music group is required to pay the costs for the blocking, as they are the ones who benefit from it.

    This cost issue makes these blocks less appealing to rightsholders and SCPP has already announced that it will appeal this part of the order.

    When doing so, the music group can also scrap at least two of the sites in question, as these have been ‘dead’ for a while.

    Both TorrentReactor and TorrentHound closed their doors months ago, and TorrentFunk has also been missing in action for a few days. Right now, LimeTorrents is the only site in the case that’s still operational.



    The full list of domains covered in the order (pdf) is as follows.

    Main domains

    torrentreactor.com
    torrenthound.com
    limetorrents.cc
    torrentfunk.com

    Mirrors

    torrentreactor.net
    torrentreactor.site
    torrentreactor.in
    thepiratebay.cool/torrent-hound
    torrenthound.cc
    torrenthound.ru
    torrenthound.se
    limetorrents.in
    limetorrents.ws
    limetorrents.info
    limetorrents.site
    limetorrents.com
    limetorrents.co
    limetor.co
    limetor.com
    limetor.net
    torrentfunk.ee
    torrentfunk.in
    torrentfunk.xyz

    Source: Torrentfreak.com

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    i don't think public piracy will live anymore and gates for private trackers will soon close as once the authorities are done with public their next target will be Private ones.... better try getting into all the trackers of my need


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