Court Rules: ISP Doesn’t Have to Block OpenBitTorrent
Bad news regarding torrent sites have been really pouring in lately: with The Pirate Bay shutting down its tracker for good (though this is not really bad news as the death of the tracker meant the birth of emergence of DHT and PEX technologies, which helps users to locate one another without the need of a tracker), with Mininova being forced to remove its infringing torrent files and SceneTorrents closing its doors permanently. However, here comes a turn of odds and some good news for a change – a Stockholm court is refusing to order an ISP from Sweden to disconnect OpenBitTorrent which industry says is the substitute for the former Pirate Bay’s torrent tracker.
The entertainment industry’s battle to bury The Pirate Bay was far more tedious and unrewarding than it has expected. Fearing that the site’s tracker has resurrected under a different name to haunt it for the convictions against its founders given back in April, Hollywood is trying to force the internet service provider Parlane to block OpenBittorent, the presumed replacement. But the court won’t have it. It ruled that Parlane is not liable for any violation of the copyright law it may facilitate.
Studios’s attorney, Monique Wadsted, outlined the fact that the ruling didn’t cover Hollywood’s claims that OpenBitTorrent was indeed The Pirate Bay tracker in disguise.
(via Wired)
