ISPs Can’t Force You Out of Pirate Sites Anymore

Imagine somebody spying on your browsing activities while you surf. Annoying, right? Worse is when they block you from accessing or downloading certain sites. But not anymore, at least in the EU!

A European court has finally ruled that your ISPs can’t be forced to monitor or block you from using the web. The court has also said that the record labels and film studios can’t use the courts to instruct your broadband company to track or try to block you.

“EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an Internet service provider to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal downloading of files,” ruled the court.

For many, this might be a relief as they would never be stopped halfway or kicked off the web while trying to download pirated stuff. Till this time your ISPs were forced to keep an eye on what you were doing on net.

Besides, the record labels, film studios and other owners of copyrighted music, movies or media, in the recent years, have managed to direct government and courts to make ISPs responsible for piracy.

Thus, the  ISPs were left with no option, but to chuck you out of the web whenever they found you entering the forbidden kingdom.

Now the government has also decided to drop the half-formed, controversial plan, Digital Economy Act after Ofcom pointed out that the idea was impractical.

However, they seem to be working on the new one.

Now the copyright holders are behind Newzbin. The high court has ruled during this summer that BT has to block its customers from accessing Newzbin.

However, the ban proved impractical to execute.

Anyway, let’s see how the copyright holders react to the whole situation. Do let us know what you think about the decision too. Is it good or bad?