{"id":118313,"date":"2017-06-14T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118313"},"modified":"2017-06-14T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:54:21","slug":"european-court-says-isps-must-block-the-pirate-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/118313-european-court-says-isps-must-block-the-pirate-bay","title":{"rendered":"European Court says ISPs must block The Pirate Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/juris\/document\/document.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d2dc30d6cb57cf7451be4a588194aa35c0a839f6.e34KaxiLc3qMb40Rch0SaxyLchb0?text=&amp;docid=191707&amp;pageIndex=0&amp;doclang=en&amp;mode=req&amp;dir=&amp;occ=first&amp;part=1&amp;cid=317489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>has ruled<\/strong><\/a> that\u00a0Dutch ISPs\u00a0must block access to The Pirate Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The court stated that the site facilitates online piracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking available and managing an online platform for sharing copyright-protected works, such as The Pirate Bay, may constitute an infringement of copyright,\u201d said the court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/06\/14\/eu-court-brein-the-pirate-bay-block\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget stated<\/strong><\/a> that the ruling paves the way for more ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites which post pirated content.<\/p>\n<p>The case started in 2009, when\u00a0anti-piracy group BREIN took action against local ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/215528-isps-must-block-the-pirate-bay-european-court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/215348-netflix-joins-power-players-to-fight-online-piracy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Netflix joins power players to fight online piracy<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Justice has ruled that\u00a0Dutch ISPs\u00a0must block access to The Pirate Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":91941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3685,9065,2440],"class_list":["post-118313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-legal","tag-pirate","tag-the-pirate-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118315,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118313\/revisions\/118315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}