T-Mobile in Austria has knocked back a request from the local music industry to block its customers from accessing The Pirate Bay, though this isn't so much the phone firm rebelling against the concept of web-blocking in principle, but rather insisting that blockades be ordered by the courts rather than rights owners. As previously reported, Austria recently joined the web-block party with a court there ordering internet service provider A1 Telekom to block access to The Pirate Bay and some other copyright infringing websites. Deciding that set a precedent, a local music industry group wrote to other large ISPs in the country urging them to voluntarily instigate blockades against the sites listed in the court order against A1.
Posted on: 01/09/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
