Italian Courts Target Pirate Bay - PC World - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 May 09
  

  Patrick O'Keefe
  • Enzo Mazza, president of the Italian Music Industry Federation (FIMI)
  • Giancarlo Mancusi, a public prosecutor in the northern town of Bergamo
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  • • Mancusi obtained a court order in August 2008 blocking access from Italian ISPs to all Pirate Bay addresses, but the ban was lifted on appeal two months later.

      
      

      The validity of the blocking order is due to be considered in September by the Court of Cassation, Italy's top appeal court, Mazza said

    • The FIMI president said he expected the prosecutor to seek a trial of The Pirate Bay founders at around the same time, and he was confident he would be able to secure a conviction.
    • "The charge is the same as the one in Sweden, so one can be optimistic about obtaining a similar verdict in Italy," Mazza said. "The courts have already confirmed that they have jurisdiction and that Italian law has been violated. The problem is always that of achieving effective enforcement, but it's becoming increasingly hard for copyright violators to find a safe haven."
    • Sunde's Italian lawyer, Giovanni Battista Gallus, also professed optimism about the likely outcome of an eventual Italian trial. "I continue to maintain that no punishable activity has taken place in Italy. We can't allow the criminalization of an instrument such as torrent tracking, which can be employed for perfectly legal uses," Gallus said in a telephone interview.
• 30 Apr 09
  

  Jonathan Bailey

  109 thepiratebay italy criminal isps

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