Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing
Written by enigmax on October 19, 2007A federation of video and media outlets has taken out an injunction against a major telecoms company to forbid them from advertising on a BitTorrent site and any other P2P site in the future.
Arcor, the fixed network operator for Vodafone in Germany has received an injunction forbidding it to advertize on P2P sites in the future.
The injunction was issued by the state court in Frankfurt after the German Association of Video and Media Retailers has complained that Arcor had been advertizing on the BitReactor.to BitTorrent tracker, a site it claims is used to facilitate the sharing of movies, tv shows and music.
The court agreed with the complaint and declared that Arcor must stop advertizing on P2P services or face fines in the future.
TorrentFreak spoke to the administrator of the popular BitTorrent site btjunkie, and he said in a response to this news: “Telling companies which web sites they are allowed to advertise on is a big step towards a non-neutral Internet. P2P web sites consist of a hard to reach demographic and blocking companies from accessing that is also a blow to free economic principles.”
Acor stole a few headlines back in September after claims that following pressure from a porn media outlet to clamp down on unauthorized sites, it blocked free porn sites (such as YouPorn) at the router level.
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If this trend continues we will find ourselves enslaved by these media outlets and big corporations…
Sad days the future holds for us… Unless we fight somehow
The presumption is always that “illegal” file sharing is taking place. If I share a Linux distro, may I be allowed to view advertisers? Or does just one suspect file sink a whole p2p site?
your article seems to contain some spelling/typing errors.
say e.g “spoke the administrator…”.
just reccomending you edit them out;)
doh! just mistyped myself!
so a ISP has to have baby sitters telling it where to and where not to place ads? rofl!
id like to start a ISP company and place ads all over just to mess, it would be my right and why cant ARCOR do so?
are they state funded or something? must be a messed up country if not..
Hard to imagine how far organizations are going to bend the law to their favor.. Give it time, the internet and particularly bit torrent will fall to these organizations. Its sad but it seems that there is no other possible outcome. One big cat and mouse game.
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There are a few spelling mistakes in that article. See if you can spot them all.
another nonsense case
We need a new internet free of government and corporate regulations and interference.
[quote comment="190668"]We need a new internet free of government and corporate regulations and interference.[/quote]
yes.!
ok go! :P
[quote comment="190335"]your article seems to contain some spelling/typing errors.
say e.g “spoke the administrator…”.
just reccomending you edit them out;)[/quote]
[quote comment="190936"][quote comment="190668"]We need a new internet free of government and corporate regulations and interference.[/quote]
yes.!
ok go! :P[/quote]
QUOTE: “Acor stole a few headlines back in September after claims that following pressure from a porn media outlet to clamp down on unauthorized sites, it blocked free porn sites (such as YouPorn) at the router level.”
Was that pressure or bribes? Threats or neutral agreement? Do we get any say in the matter? Ok it’s only germany right? But which country is next? You can only put so much control and restrictions, pressure on people who think they can spend more money for a little freedom (i,e,bigger data caps!, petrol, etc), when really they are only supporting these monopolizing tyrants! more and more people are now turning around and saying ‘enough is enough’.
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