Una corte dice di no in germania.
German Court: ISPs Shouldn't Block Illegal Websites.
Earlier this week, we reported that Finnish ISP Elisa had been told to block access to Swedish website The Pirate Bay, as well as other sites known for illegal file-sharing, constituting part of an ongoing court case initiated by the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and Finland’s branch of music industry group IFPI.
This was swiftly followed by news that two Dutch ISPs had also been ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay, with both cases echoing similar action in the UK, with BT and Sky both recently ordered to block access to Newzbin 2, a site used to disseminate links to copyright-infringing content.
As Der Spiegel reports [in German], Germany is bucking this trend, with a court in Cologne ruling that German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom should continue to allow access to Internet betting sites, even if they are illegal in Germany.
