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At the beginning of December a Swedish ISP decided to block its users in Sweden and Denmark  from accessing AllofMP3.com.

This move received a fair amount of criticism as the Perspektiv Bredband ISP admitted it was a moral and not a legal standpoint.

As a part of a protest campaign against such moral Internet censorship by ISPs Piratebay in turn blocked Perspektiv Bredband customers from accessing the PirateBay BitTorrent tracker.

A week later Perspektiv Bredband had reversed its decision and opened access to AllofMP3.com.

“We made a hasty decision and we withdrew from our mission. We are sorry about this. Together with our new chairman of the board, the management agrees that limiting Internet access is not within the framework of our business,” said Fredrik Winbladh, President of Perspektiv Bredband.


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Swedish ISP Unblocks... read more

Piratebay has launched a campaign against a Swedish ISP that had decided to block its customers from accessing AllofMP3.com. In turn Piratebay will block the Perspektiv Bredband ISP from accessing the popular PirateBay BitTorrent tracker.

In a statement at piratbyran.org Piratebay insists that the Perspektiv Bredband ISP acted in the interests of powerful media companies rather then in the interests of the customers. “After dialogues with Swedish and Danish anti-piracy organisations Perspektiv Bredband has blocked access of allofmp3.com for both their Swedish and Danish customers. In Sweden there is no legal reason to do so since allofmp3.com is legal to use. Perspektiv Bredband clearly states in their press release that it is a moral and not legal standpoint.”

"Perspektiv Bredband has every right in the world to block whichever site they want on their own net," the statement goes on. "And their customers have every right in the... read more

An English translation of the Danish court decision which ruled that a provider shall block its customers from accessing Allofmp3.com has been posted on the Internet.

In short the provider shall block the site as it’s illegal. The site is illegal because music is “offered for very low price on the website as well as …[because of] the information from the Russian branch of IFPI…” Actually IFPI believes that the body which licensed AllofPM3.com should have asked IFPI first. However IFPI couldn’t prove it neither in Russian nor in any other court. It remains unclear what kind of evidence could persuade the Danish court that Russian legislation has less force than information from IFPI.

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IFPI vs Tele 2 ---- in English, p2pnet
Danish ISP forced to block customers from AllofMP3.com, AllofMP3 Blogs