T411, one of if not the French download site the most popular, will soon be blocked in France. Unless …
Civil Society of Phonographic Producers (SCPP), which represents the music industry in France and the fight against piracy, published this afternoon a brief statement in which it announced that the High Court (TGI) in Paris has agreed and gave the blocking of “music file-sharing site T411.”
The statement did not specify precisely how the site will be blocked only that it is again the ISPs who will be involved. And it refers to the same article L336-2 of the Code of intellectual property that the company had invoked to block The Pirate Bay in December. This states that TGI can “order all measures to stop the infringement of a copyright against anyone who might help to solve them.”
> Again justice does not back to the source, that is to say, the BitTorrent tracker and its directory, presumably hosted abroad, in the shelter of the French justice. The latter therefore attack at the last link in the chain, ISPs, which certainly will block new site’s domain name in their DNS servers.
It is recalled that such a measure bypasses in seconds both by the user, which can use other DNS servers than those of some ISP concerned, as the site editor, who may switch to a new domain on which the judgment does not.
T411 has also changed its domain name end of February, and it may well be that the judgment relates to the previous one, which is no longer used. The ruling would be void from the outset.
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