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| ISPs Refuse to Block New Pirate Bay IP-Address Posted: 24 May 2012 04:04 AM PDT
On May 10th, the Court of The Hague ordered an additional five ISPs – UPC, KPN, Tele2, T-Mobile and Telfort – to block two TPB IP addresses and 20 domain names within 10 days or face fines of up to 250,000 euros. These pair of court rulings, although similar, were not identical. In the first ruling permission was given for BREIN to add additional IP addresses should The Pirate Bay choose to switch or add IP addresses to their site. Not surprisingly and as already reported, TPB did in fact add a new IP address plus a proxy-friendly version of their site in recent days. BREIN was quick to react and has now ordered Ziggo and XS4ALL to block the IP address 194.71.107.80 within 10 days or face fines of up to 250,000 euros. However, in the second ruling against the five other ISPs, the Court felt that the XS4ALL/Ziggo ruling went too far. As a result the Court only allowed two TPB specific IPs to be censored and disallowed BREIN from simply adding more. This means that even when the ban kicks in during the days to come, users of UPC, KPN, Tele2, T-Mobile and Telfort will be able to access TPB by using the IP address listed above. Although not required by law to block the recently-added IP address, Webwereld reports that two ISPs have confirmed they were approached by BREIN to do so. “We will do not comply without a court order”, said Jan-Willem te Gussinklo Ohmann, spokesman for Tele2. “We will not respond to [BREIN's] request,” said a spokesperson for KPN. “Our position is: we’re not going to make destinations on the Internet inaccessible to our subscribers without a judge determining that it is necessary.” However, contesting the addition of new IP addresses isn’t the only way these ISPs are resisting web blockades. From the first ruling, Ziggo and XS4ALL already announced that they will appeal and now from the second ruling, Tele2 have just confirmed that they have done the same. “At the moment BREIN wants a blockade of The Pirate Bay, but tomorrow there may be other interest groups preparing their wishlists,” Tele2 said. “The ruling is a threat to Internet freedom in our country.” Source: ISPs Refuse to Block New Pirate Bay IP-Address
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| Rickroll Meme Destroyed By Copyright Takedown Posted: 23 May 2012 08:07 AM PDT
It’s an incredibly simple concept. The meme is based on a bait and switch, whereby someone posts a hyperlink which allegedly provides content relevant to the current discussion, but in fact leads to the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up” instead. People who follow these links and end up viewing the song/video are said to have been “Rickrolled” and over the years millions of people have been fooled into doing so. However, those falling into the trap today are being met with something not nearly as entertaining and, if it’s even possible, something that is even more annoying. Due to a copyright complaint, the original Rickroll video has been removed from YouTube.  Taking down a five-year-old video with tens of millions of views is strange enough, but it is far from clear why AVG Technologies – the people behind AVG Anti-Virus (?) – would want to do so at all. Hopefully there has been some terrible mistake and everything will be sorted out soon. If not, the consequences could be unpredictable. The Rickroll meme started life on the notorious 4chan message board in 2007 and developed into a worldwide sensation from there, and as we all know that particular community is not known for its patience, nor lack of creativity when it comes to revenge tactics. This is not the first time that the Rickroll video has been removed though. It was removed by YouTube in 2010 but reinstated shortly afterwards. TorrentFreak contacted both AVG and Google-owned YouTube for comment and we’ll post their statements here when they arrive. Update: After being blocked for 24 hours, the video is now back. We’re still waiting for an official explanation on what happened. Source: Rickroll Meme Destroyed By Copyright Takedown
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