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| ISP: BitTorrent Traffic Increased After Pirate Bay Blockade Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:43 AM PDT
The group conveniently forgot to mention that many people now use proxy sites to access the site, and didn’t mention the uptick that can be noticed at other BitTorrent sites. It was a win for Hollywood, they simply argued. However, XS4All, one of the Dutch providers that was sued by BREIN, has now burst this bubble. According to the ISP there is no sign that their subscribers are changing their downloading habits, on the contrary. “Since the Pirate Back blocking lawsuit began, BitTorrent traffic has not been reduced, it increased instead,” XS4All’s Niels Huijbregts states. The ISP looked at the traffic on its network and found that over the past year traffic increased on ports that are commonly used for BitTorrent. “I think that the increase is a result of all the media attention for the lawsuit and the blockade. Perhaps people who until then had never downloaded thought ‘I hear so much about downloading music and movies, let me try it!’.” “What I want to say to BREIN is this: your repressive policy does not work. You can block access to the Pirate Bay, but that clearly doesn’t result in the desired effect on the download behavior of the Dutch.” Instead of demanding more blockades and censorship, XS4All advises the entertainment industry to focus their energy on the positive. In other words, give consumers what they want instead of beating them into submission. “Put all that money and all that time and effort into something that has an effect. Invest in great new things. And do something about your image,” Huijbregts says. “With your witchhunt you’ve declared war on the biggest film and music fans. The people who could be your biggest customers hate the entire entertainment industry because of all the lawsuits and lobbying activities,” he adds. The ISP claims that the solution to piracy is not censorship, but innovation, and XS4All suggests that the entertainment industry should build their own version of The Pirate Bay. “Build a legal version of the Pirate Bay, where everyone can find and download content. Because that’s what people want: access to everything, anytime, anywhere. That is the reality of the Internet, so that’s what people expect. And unfortunately there are hardly any legal models to meet that expectation,” Huijbregts concludes. A Pirate Bay admin told TorrentFreak that the news about the traffic increase was to be expected. “We are not the only torrent site around, and with their high-profile blocking lawsuits they introduced tens of thousands of new users to BitTorrent,” TorrentFreak was told. “With very few exceptions, all the content that can be found on The Pirate Bay is available on hundreds of other sites.” Besides the Netherlands, The Pirate Bay is also being blocked by all of the major UK ISPs. Whether they have noticed a similar uptick in BitTorrent traffic recently remains the question, but it wouldn’t come as a surprise. Source: ISP: BitTorrent Traffic Increased After Pirate Bay Blockade
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| Music Labels Prepare Action To Block Major BitTorrent Sites Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:12 AM PDT In the wake of OFCOM’s publication of its Initial Obligations Code for the UK’s much-delayed Digital Economy Act, the government said it would remove a pair of controversial sections from the legislation. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said that following OFCOM’s findings that they would prove inefficient, sections 17 and 18 of the DEA – which relate to having copyright-infringing sites blocked at the ISP level – would be taken out completely. In practical terms though, they are being removed because they are no longer needed. A 2011 court case against Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 by the MPA showed that existing legislation could be used to have a site blocked by ISPs in the UK. A similar process was repeated earlier this year by the BPI against infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay. The question remained, however, whether the movie studios or record labels would come back for more, to cut off other sites using the same legal processes. Today, we may have the first signs of an answer. If communication being sent out by music licensing group PPL to its members is any barometer, some pretty major torrent sites will soon come under the legal spotlight of the BPI.  The letter goes on to state that the action against The Pirate Bay was coordinated by the BPI but that the job still isn’t finished, and that “..other similar BitTorrent sites exist which provide facilities via which internet users can illegally download recorded music from, and illegally make it available to, other internet users.” To this end, PPL is now checking among its members to make sure that none have licensed their music to any of these leading torrent sites: - Extratorrent The PPL says it doesn’t expert to learn that members have licensed work but in the event they have (or have even been approached by the sites listed above) they should contact the BPI’s legal team by next Tuesday July 10th. TorrentFreak contacted the BPI’s Director of Communications Adam Liversage for comment but at the time of publication were yet to receive a response. Source: Music Labels Prepare Action To Block Major BitTorrent Sites
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This week anti-Piracy group BREIN celebrated a victory against The Pirate Bay. Now 90% of the Dutch Internet users can no longer access the BitTorrent site directly, the site’s Alexa traffic rank in the Netherlands tanked.
XS4all claims that all the news about the blockade may be one of the reasons for this increase. 
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