Dutch Pirateparty Refuses Order To Take Down Proxy 73
New submitter CAPSLOCK2000 writes "The Dutch Pirateparty has refused an order from BREIN to take down a proxy to The Pirate Bay. Last month BREIN (the distribution-industries paralegal outfit) forced a number of ISPs to block The Pirate Bay; the first site ever blocked in the Netherlands. Immediately people started using proxies at other ISPs to get to TPB. BREIN then threatened a number of those proxies with legal action. As most of these are run by hobbyists without legal or financial means there was little resistance. Now the Dutch Pirateparty has decided to stand up to the intimidation and refuses to take down its proxy. Today they sent their response in style: by uploading it to The Pirate Bay. In translation: 'The Pirateparty disputes your claim and will not comply with your request.'"
Via Torrentfreak, Pirate Party chairman Dirk Poot: "There are a plethora of proxy sites on the internet. On almost any them TPB can by reached, even with a single URL. That's not even mentioning the ways you can get to TPB if you're willing to put in more effort than saving a single URL. If this keeps going there will be no Internet left by the time BREIN has achieved its goal of making TPB inaccessible. ... In their self-righteous zealousness they have brought substantial damage to the free and open Internet."
What goes around... (Score:4, Funny)
As the BREIN lawyers tried to serve a legal document to one of the pirate bay guys via twitter, I suppose that sending replies using similar means is only fair. To bad that they cannot officially read the reply as the website is blocked...
Well.... (Score:5, Funny)
To use a physical analogy....its like seeing a door in frame, attached to no wall, and sending a note to the owner that he should really lock his door lest someone go through it.
Oh, yeah, that'll work. (Score:5, Funny)
Yar! (Score:5, Funny)
'The Pirateparty disputes your claim and will not comply with your request.'
To quote Capt Barbossa:
I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no".
LOL (Score:3, Funny)
Dirk Poot. Haw haw
Re:Well.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well.... (Score:4, Funny)
...first you need Spoc to mind meld...
Turn in your geek card, you are done.
Re:Well.... (Score:5, Funny)
Turn in your geek card, you are done.
No. It's just he runs KDE, and runs out of "k"s early each day.