French Court Orders Search Engines, ISPs To Block Pirate Sites 75
rtoz sends word that a French court has ordered Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to remove 16 unauthorized video streaming sites from their search results. Many ISPs were also ordered to block access to the sites. According to TorrentFreak,
"The court ruled that the film industry had clearly demonstrated that the sites in question are 'dedicated or virtually dedicated to the distribution of audiovisual works without the consent of their creators,' thus violating their copyrights. As a result the search services of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and local company Orange are now under orders to 'take all necessary measures to prevent the occurrence on their services of any results referring to any of the pages' on these sites. Several ISPs – Orange, Free, Bouygues Télécom, SFR, Numéricable and Darty Télécom were also ordered to 'implement all appropriate means including blocking' to prevent access to the infringing sites."
Re:So French (Score:5, Interesting)
"So French"
We do have to look at this news through the 'french' lens...their courts and legal system are Kafkaesque (ha!)
will the block go into effect immediately or is this conditional upon appeal to a higher court before it goes into effect?
it's dumb of course, as another poster said they'll just use different URL's or imbed the players in other sites...
Re:Then 17 new ones appeared... (Score:3, Interesting)
... while the old ones continues to operate with bypasses even a 12 year old can figure out.
Actually, we're talking about France. It's unlikely that the streaming services will adapt just to suit the French market, unless they're French streaming sites. More likely, people will stop watching the streaming services and move to consuming via Youtube (which yes, is still a streaming service) or TPB. Ordering Google to block Youtube isn't going to go over so well.
This is the future. Boot. Face. Police state net. (Score:4, Interesting)
It will come to every ISP on the planet. The curtain is falling. To monitor sexual thought, "national security", enforcement of eternally granted imaginary property, blasphemy, badthink, The Children, and any other damned thing they can think of, we are going for full metal police state. Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a prison and they are sounding the bell for final lockup. Tech solutions will be temporary at best because they will be declared illegal, or compromised, as soon as they pop up.
-toldyaso