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    The Pirate Bay Blocked By Telenor Sweden

    After many demands from various music and film industry-related companies for The Pirate Bay to be blocked by Telenor, it seems that the Norwegian Internet Service Provider finally decided to do so. According to the ISP, they did this voluntarily and not because of the pressure.

    The direct court order wasn’t given to the company, but Telenor decided to do this because of the Breddandsbolaget that was purchased by Telenor group in 2005. This is one of the largest ISP’s in Sweden, and they did receive an order to block the biggest torrent sites.

    All the way back in 2014, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music worked with Swedish Film Industry and Nordisk Film, the final result was a lawsuit against Bredbandsbolaget. It was said that the ISP did nothing to prevent and even assisted its users to access the torrent site. Bredbandsbolaget responded by saying that their “role is to provide its subscribers with access to the Internet, thereby contributing to the free flow of information and the ability for people to reach each other and communicate.”

    The main argument of the ISP is that they are not responsible for the content that is exchanged over the internet. They added that it would be similar to the postal service and that they should also be responsible for anything that is sent in envelopes and similar.

    Stockholm District Court ruled in November 2015 that Bredbandsbolaget can’t be forced to block The Pirate Bay and that they were not involved in wrongdoings of some of their subscribers. This went further, and in February 2017 this decision was overruled by Patent and Market Court of Appeal that ordered the ISP to block access to the pirate site.

    With this ruling, Bredbandsbolaget was forced to restrict access to its users, but they also said that the fight is not over. Since the two companies did not merge until recently, Telenor didn’t have to block The Pirate Bay. With the final steps in merger done, they decided to impose the block also.

    Here is what the company representatives stated: “We have not discontinued Bredbandsbolaget, but we have merged Telenor and Bredbandsbolaget and become one. When we share the same network, The Pirate Bay is blocked by both Telenor and Bredbandsbolaget and there is nothing we plan to change in the future.”

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    If this behaviour continues it's only going to make people find alternative ways of accessing sites.


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