<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p>Belgian organisation requested blocking and filtering internet !!!</p><p>After a court ordered two of the largest Belgian Internet service
providers to prevent their users accessing The Pirate Bay, the local
anti-piracy outfit is now urging other ISPs to do the same. Internet
providers who refuse to give in to this request within 10 days will be
taken to court, a threatening letter explains. The blackmailing tactic
seems to have worked, as one of the smaller ISPs has already disabled
access to The Pirate Bay.</p><p>Late September the Antwerp Court of Appeal <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/belgian-isps-ordered-to-block-the-pirate-bay-111004/">ordered</a> Belgian ISPs Belgacom and Telenet to initiate DNS blockades of 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay.</p></div><div><section id="content-wrapper"><section id="main-content"><section id="post"><article><p>After a court ordered two of the largest Belgian Internet service
providers to prevent their users accessing The Pirate Bay, the local
anti-piracy outfit is now urging other ISPs to do the same. Internet
providers who refuse to give in to this request within 10 days will be
taken to court, a threatening letter explains. The blackmailing tactic
seems to have worked, as one of the smaller ISPs has already disabled
access to The Pirate Bay.</p><p>Late September the Antwerp Court of Appeal <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/belgian-isps-ordered-to-block-the-pirate-bay-111004/">ordered</a> Belgian ISPs Belgacom and Telenet to initiate DNS blockades of 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay.</p><p>The Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF) applauded the verdict, which
they see as a landmark decision opening the door to further censorship
attempts. And indeed, without hesitation the group is putting the
verdict to work in their favor.</p><p>NURPA, a Belgian advocacy group which promotes and protects the
digital rights of citizens, has learned that BAF has sent a threatening
letter to various Belgian ISPs. The group has managed to obtain a copy
which they <a href="http://nurpa.be/actualites/2011/12/BAF-chantage-censure-Internet">published</a> on their site today. </p><p>In the letter, BAF mentions the recent verdict against the two
Belgian Internet providers, which they say confirms The Pirate Bay is
responsible for copyright infringement on a massive scale. To extend the
ruling, the anti-piracy group is demanding that other ISPs also begin
banning the sites domains.</p><p>To ensure an optimal effect, this measure should be implemented by
all Internet service providers, not just by Belgacom and Telenet, the
anti-piracy group writes.</p><p>The ISPs have ten days to comply, BAF adds, or else the group will take them to court. </p><p>Failing a satisfactory response from you within the time limit, the
BAF will begin legal proceedings against you, BAF threatens.</p></article></section></section></section></div><div>Full article on </div><div><a href="https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-blackmails-isps-to-censor-the-pirate-bay-111205/">https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-blackmails-isps-to-censor-the-pirate-bay-111205/</a></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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