Court Goes Censorship Crazy Against Dutch Pirate Party
from the whac-whac-whac-a-mole dept
We've been covering the attempts by Dutch anti-piracy operator BREIN to play a legal game of whac-a-mole to block The Pirate Bay by forcing ISPs to block access, then blocking proxies that provide access, and now blocking anyone from even talking about ways to get to The Pirate Bay. Bizarrely, a court in The Hague has agreed, and has come out in favor of blocking the Dutch Pirate Party from even discussing some of this stuff:The Court specifically ruled that the Party’s reverse proxy has to remain offline. It was further ordered that Pirate Bay domains and IP-addresses have to be filtered from the Pirate Party’s generic proxy. In addition the Pirate Party can’t link to other websites that allow the public to bypass the blockade. These orders are only valid when paired with an encouragement to circumvent.Basically, telling people how to get around a block, even if it's linking to a general proxy (not a specific one) is now barred in the Netherlands. The fact that the court now is telling proxies how they can work is a huge overreach. That seems like a pretty blatant restriction on free speech. The thing is, do the folks at BREIN actually think this charade is effective? All it seems to be doing is enraging tons of people in the Netherlands, and doing absolutely nothing to stop them from going to The Pirate Bay.
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Filed Under: brein, censorship, netherlands, proxy, the hague, whac-a-mole
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The first rule...
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Elections in September
Noteworthy is also that the Netherlands are the first country in Europe to have passed a net neutrality law - one day before the verdict against PPNL was issued.
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The Net Neutrality law just makes it harder for ISPs and other service providers to charge extra money for use of services like Whatsapp and Skype over their pipes.
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Apparently the court is unaware...
But the citizens won't be. For long.
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There's a little voice in my head when i read these, it sounds like Cory Doctorow: "now you have two problems".
I wonder which will happen first, backlash, or a the judge having a ragegasm and popping a blood vessel because that damned interwebz won't bow to his will.
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The sooner BREIN dies the better. I wouldn't feel any pity if I saw Tim Kuik begging for money on the streets. Not with these blatant attacks against human rights of millions.
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Stem block
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Simple. Their website should now say, "If you follow these simple steps, that would be circumvention. Please don't do that."
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Best Way To Fight Back
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This is the Earth we're heading towards...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmY56Q1Gx-Q
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Does this judge think he can keep non-Dutch sites from explaining how to reach TPB? And if not, how does he expect this ruling to be anything but a farce? The internet does not stop at the border and politely check in with the guards.
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It would be great to have the BREIN leader knowing that every image of him on the net possibly has a rar inside it packed with YOU GOT F'D IN THE A stop! HAMMER TIME
I've been testing sites just out of curiosity to see how much data I can store inside one with no errors. Any site with image compression will not work but there are plenty out there. The best I've found so far is 35 megs but I'm sure I will find a better one soon. Big enough to pack TPBs whole site into.
Then you could be like WOW THAT BREIN DUDE IS COOL AS HELL he's hiding treasure in his images!!!
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OK. ..done as you ordered sir
Like..... These photos contain TPB proxy list
http://www.pic-hoster.com/pictures/2f623d37b83b820480dbce965ad70079.jpg
http://s7.postimage .org/c564yubej/tim_kuik.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/fo3cas.jpg
jpg includes a rar file .... Extract / open the pic.jpg with Winrar
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http://www.fucktimkuik.org
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After the next court order, link to a page which links to a page which links to a proxy. "Here's some guys who will point you to some guys who will get you to the piratebay."
How many layers of links do you think it will take for the court to realize how stupid it is?
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Same judge as in FTD case
In the aftermath of that ruling, the judge (Chris Hansen) was discovered to be running a commercial anti-piracy business with the very plaintiff in that case; a business which was the subject matter of the trial. In most countries' laws, that makes the judge textbook corrupt.
With that background, perhaps it is not so surprising that somebody once corrupted to that level stays corrupted:
Dutch judge who ordered Pirate Bay links censored found to be corrupt (Falkvinge on Infopolicy)
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The fact that the judge and the lawyer taught in the same course organised by the Dutch Bar Association is not very remarkable, and the fees that the Association receives from participants (€ 925) most probably stays there; I expect the lecturers to get paid by the hour. It should not be considered a commercial operation, certainly not a "business", however much I agree with Mr Falkvinge in general.
However, this judge is known for low-quality judgements and overextending copyright laws: he ruled that downloading was illegal in a certain case, based on some British jurisprudence, which is not at all relevant: downloading is and has always been legal in the Netherlands. So this guy has to go, even though there are no signs of corruption; that's why, knowing this, the Pirates' lawyers did not try to have the judge recused.
As to what will happen, I expect this to be overturned by a higher court, if the Pirates appeal. They really should.
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http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/66177/ftd-vonnis-is--schokkend--en--onhoudbaar-.html
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It would be very interesting if the Pirate Party used this information and added very specific goals to take money out of the judicial system to their goals. I have this feeling this would boost their popularity a lot. Obviously they'd need to tell ppl how they were gonna do that but I think there are ways to attack the problem. It's interesting, here in Brazil if you work for the Govt you can't run any businesses related to your area (meaning none at all in fiscal areas) in the sphere you work for (ie, if you work at the state level you can have a business in the neighboring state). Maybe they could follow something in that line.
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This is the Earth we're heading towards...
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