Court Forbids Linking to Pirate Bay Proxies
Found on TorrentFreak on Saturday, 12 May 2012
The Court has forbidden the Dutch Pirate Party from linking to, operating or listing websites that allow the public to circumvent a local Pirate Bay blockade. The political party is further ordered to shutdown its reverse proxy indefinitely and block Pirate Bay domains and IP-addresses from its generic proxy.
The Court specifically ruled that the Party’s reverse proxy has to remain offline. It was further ordered that Pirate Bay domains and IP-addresses have to be filtered from the Pirate Party’s generic proxy. In addition the Pirate Party can’t link to other websites that allow the public to bypass the blockade.
So much for freedom of speech. Now the Pirate Party cannot tell its visitors to use OpenDNS, Google's nameservers, the MAFIAAFire plugin, VPN or other proxy services to get around this censorship which was ordered by a judge who, for what it looks like, has financial connections to the entertainment industry.