Pirate Bay warning: internet provider forced to hand over names

[bitcoinrays]

A landmark ruling in Sweden has forced a popular ISP to hand over the names of those engaged in piracy

A landmark court ruling in Sweden could have dire consequences for those using torrent sites like the Pirate Bay to download pirate films and TV shows.

One of the country's main internet service providers (ISP) will soon be forced to hand over the names of customers using its services to download illegal material.

Bahnhof is a popular ISP in Sweden and is proud of its ability to keep its customer data private. But the Administrative Court in Stockholm has decided it must hand over all the personal details of those who infringe on copyright.

The court made a statement about the judgement on its website: “The administrative court in Stockholm has found that today the Swedish provisions on disclosure of subscription data to law enforcement agencies do not contravene EU law.

“The court therefore considers that the Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) has been prepared to instruct the operator Bahnhof to disclose subscription information in accordance with the provisions of the Electronic Communications Act."

Bahnhof responded to say that it will appeal the decision. But it could have ramifications to other ISPs beyond Sweden.

Here in the UK, ISPs have issued warnings to anyone using torrent sites like the Pirate Bay or KickassTorrents as part of the Get It Right campaign .

The new campaign is being run by the government, after it emerged that an estimated 6.7 million people consumed at least one item of illegal content in 2016.

Previous attempts to fight the flow of illegal content onto torrent sites has involved browsers blocking their IP addresses. However, thanks to tools like proxies and VPNs, they are often still accessible.

The reason torrent sites have continued to flourish is that they can also be used to share perfectly legal files. In a similar manner to Wikipedia, the content is completely user-generated.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/pirate-bay-warning-internet-provider-11953135

Not certain if this could have an effect on crypto denominated dark web markets. It could represent a step towards renewed crackdowns on file sharing. There may also be renewed interest in "internet kill switches" which may be a misdirection and misinformation campaign. The concept of an "internet kill switch" may revolve around a countries internet becoming centralized enough that it can be shutdown from a single source. Internet centralization makes it easier to implement things like state sureillance and internet content filtering. Its not simply a kill switch, its intended to push other political agendas.

Anyways, this case with ISPs handing over data could hint at renewed RIAA cases where the movie or music recording industries go after file downloaders in court and try to sue them for life ruining sums of money. I'm not 100% certain what the implications are but with net neutrality being gone and appeals being in jeopardy this may be the type of case which could benefit largely from having more exposure and more thought as to what the repurcussions may be.

This thing has nothing to do with crypto. This is a completely different case and is about those are involved in copyright infringement which is against the law in most countries if not all. So I believe their government wants to deal with those that are involved and maybe they might go as far as closing down the website, but not after they might have carried out their plans.

[cryptaxo]

do we need to be worried for this action?

[South Park]

Heres a question on file sharing. If I convert a song from a CD and copy it to my friend's USB drive, will that be considered piracy? Why arent the companies concerned with it? Its technically the same as sharing a file on Bittorent.

That is also a form of piracy, in the past you could borrow games from a friend and play them in your console that is why now you need to install the games instead, in the past before torrenting became a thing record labels were trying to stop people doing that but now they have bigger problems than a person copying a song from a CD, after all who buys a CD of music in 2018?

[Lanatsa]

Heres a question on file sharing. If I convert a song from a CD and copy it to my friend's USB drive, will that be considered piracy? Why arent the companies concerned with it? Its technically the same as sharing a file on Bittorent.

That is also a form of piracy, in the past you could borrow games from a friend and play them in your console that is why now you need to install the games instead, in the past before torrenting became a thing record labels were trying to stop people doing that but now they have bigger problems than a person copying a song from a CD, after all who buys a CD of music in 2018?

CD is already dead as of these generations but not all yet theres still some usage but not entirely focusing on songs or music but rather on other means like file back ups, software programs but when it comes to songs its already dead. Why? we are already on the digital era. Using up those cd is totally irrelevant yet we can use on mobile directly from any sound system via bluetooth or usb.