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Music Industry Threatens to Sue UK Pirate Party over Pirate Bay Proxy

by anons2011 on 12/10/12, 2:50 PM with 13 comments

• by TomAnthony on 12/10/12, 4:55 PM

  I wonder if they will also go after Google which hosts everything that ThePirateBay does:

  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eAYXcZa...

  If you don't use torrents, then you must understand TPB don't use 'torrent files' any more. They use 'magnet links' which are just hyperlinks with the seed info embedded, so when Google caches their pages they cache this info too.

  You can initiate torrent downloads from that page exactly as you can from ThePirateBay.

• by dave1010uk on 12/10/12, 6:00 PM

  Is it a common practice for corporations to sue political parties?

• by casca on 12/10/12, 4:54 PM

  This will make for an interesting legal argument. The ruling compelled ISPs of a certain size to block access to TPB and the Pirate Party is not an ISP. It would be good for this to go to court to be re-examined given the ineffectiveness of the remedy.

  Don't forget to donate to the Open Rights Group (www.openrightsgroup.org) if you support an open internet.

• by ibrow on 12/10/12, 4:02 PM

  Pirate Party UK Donation page: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/Help

• by polshaw on 12/10/12, 4:01 PM

  (Much needed) publicity for PPUK, and the issues of a censored internet.

• by meaty on 12/10/12, 4:02 PM

  I wonder if they'll go after the smaller ISPs as well which do not block anything at all?