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A greek court rejected a request made by the Greek CopyRight Protection Assosiation for the ISPs to block every known IP adress that has has been associated with torrenting.
The court justified their desicion with many reasons
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Personal comment: A court ruling is all that is needed to show the way, I'm not saying that piracy is a good thing but at least it would appear that justice doesn't see it the way it used to do a couple of years earlier, which is really interesting. Someone's making comments that burn the already butt-hurt producers (since no real financial impact has been noticed for those companies)
Net neutrality they say. Cameron blocked porn (and ruined Shaun's dreams xD) EU for the win!
The court justified their desicion with many reasons
- The measure was irrational (totally overkill)
- Torrents are not only beeing used for pirated copies of music/software/movies but also for distributing open source software (eg GNU licence)
- The measure simply wouldn't have been effective because torrent sites usually jump from ip to ip all the time
- ALSO such an action would have been breaking the EU law on NET NEUTRALITY (that is beeing protected), and the right that every EU citizen has to be able to access any type of information at will
- Last but not least, the court commented, piracy's negative impact on artists is getting smalled day after day. There's no real copy right infringement for their side. The only ones interested in this matter are the producer companies of each respected industry division (music/movies/software etc)
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Personal comment: A court ruling is all that is needed to show the way, I'm not saying that piracy is a good thing but at least it would appear that justice doesn't see it the way it used to do a couple of years earlier, which is really interesting. Someone's making comments that burn the already butt-hurt producers (since no real financial impact has been noticed for those companies)
Net neutrality they say. Cameron blocked porn (and ruined Shaun's dreams xD) EU for the win!
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