Danish ISP to Battle Injunction

Danish Internet service provider Tele2 will fight a court injunction ordering it to obstruct admission to a file-sharing website, after it decided that the ISP was supporting copyright infringement.

Last week, the company convened with representatives of other ISPs where they determined to dispute the court injunction, says Nicholai Pfeiffer, Tele2’s chief of regulations. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has retorted by filing a supplementary justification for the injunction with the court, says Pfeiffer.

Tele2 has observed the injunction order, blocking its customers from accessing the torrent hosting site, The Pirate Bay. The IFPI says that Danish Internet users are downloading copyright files through BitTorrent, without approval, using The Pirate Bay’s list of available torrents.

To date, Tele2 is the only Danish ISP that has been ordered to stop access to The Pirate Bay, but the IFPI says it plans to send letters to further Danish ISPs asking them to additionally block the torrent site, says IFPI spokesman Jesper Bay. And even as the IFPI has not yet determined whether to follow more injunctions, Bay says that the organization is more worried about the content that is in fact hosted on the PCs of users around the world than it is the actual torrents themselves.