February 19, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Danish Internet service provider Tele2 (tele2.com) will fight a court injunction ordering it to block access to a file-sharing website, after it concluded that the ISP was assisting in copyright infringement.
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Last week, the company met with representatives of other ISPs where they resolved to dispute the court injunction, says Nicholai Pfeiffer, Tele2's chief of regulations. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has fired back by filing a further justification for the injunction with the court, says Pfeiffer.
Tele2 has obeyed the injunction order, blocking its customers from accessing the torrent hosting site, The Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.org). The IFPI says that Danish Internet users are downloading copyright files through BitTorrent, without authorization, using The Pirate Bay's list of available torrents.
So far, Tele2 is the only Danish ISP that has been ordered to cut access to The Pirate Bay, but the IFPI says it plans to send letters to additional Danish ISPs asking them to also block the torrent site, says IFPI spokesman Jesper Bay. And while the IFPI has not yet decided whether to pursue more injunctions, Bay says that the organization is more concerned about the content that is actually hosted on the PCs of users around the world than it is the actual torrents themselves.
