gHacks technology news » perspektiv http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 And so the Pirates win the day http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:14:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/ It began with the ban of the Russian website allofmp3 by the internet provider Perspektiv. The Piratebay decided to ban users of the provider from accessing their website as a response of the ban against allofmp3. Guess what, Perspektiv announced today that they lifted the ban of the Russian website and the Piratebay in turn decided to lift their ban as well.

According to the Pro Piracy Lobby website the provider experienced some heavy fire from disgruntled customers and privacy & free speech groups. It seems that the pressure on the provider was this intense that they decided to retract their decision and apologize to their customers.

Together with our new chairman of the board, the management agrees that limiting Internet access is not within the framework of our business, says Fredrik Winbladh, President of Perspektiv Bredband.

It is of great importance the we as a telecom and Internet operator, a so called common carrier, focus on delivering information. We can’t risk our position being questioned given the previous statement. The management and the company learned a lot from the debate that took place and we will use this experience to keep developing according to our vision of becoming the prime broadband choice of the Öresund region (Southern Sweden), says new Chairman Mikael Paulsson.

Two interesting statements. It seems that this episode clearly shows that companies will listen to their customers if only enough raise their voice.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/21/and-so-the-pirates-win-the-day/feed/ 1 Piratebay fights back http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/piratebay-fights-back/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/piratebay-fights-back/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:51:11 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/piratebay-fights-back/ Fight fire with fire – that song came probably to the minds of the Piratebay crew. They have decided to react on the censorship of the Swedish internet provider Perspektiv by banning the complete IP range of that provider from accessing the Piratebay, sort of like using censorship as a weapon against censors.

Piratebay also published the php code of the script that blocks the ISP from accessing the website and asks other sites to join in and ban that ISP. Infocider took the liberty to translate the press release into English. The intention seems to be to convince customers of Perspektiv to change the ISP because of their ban of the Russian mp3 website allofmp3.

Do you think that this will work ? I’m not sure yet, if enough websites join the party it could work. Would be interesting to know how many of the users of Perspektiv are actually using the Piratebay. Can you fight fire with fire or should you better try and eliminate the oxygen instead ?

I think another method would be to use a similar script to inform the users of that ISP of what their ISP is doing and offer them ways to change to another ISP. Integrate a ISP search script, think that would actually work better.

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