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Aussie Rebel · 10-19-2007, 03:55 PM

I thought this was interesting, any comments?

Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing

A federation of video and media outlets has taken out an injunction against a major telecoms company to forbid them from advertising on a BitTorrent site and any other P2P site in the future.

harvard p2p

Arcor, the fixed network operator for Vodafone in Germany has received an injunction forbidding it to advertize on P2P sites in the future.

The injunction was issued by the state court in Frankfurt after the German Association of Video and Media Retailers has complained that Arcor had been advertizing on the BitReactor.to BitTorrent tracker, a site it claims is used to facilitate the sharing of movies, tv shows and music.

The court agreed with the complaint and declared that Arcor must stop advertizing on P2P services or face fines in the future.

TorrentFreak spoke the administrator of the popular BitTorrent site btjunkie, and he said in a response to this news: ?Telling companies which web sites they are allowed to advertise on is a big step towards a non-neutral Internet. P2P web sites consist of a hard to reach demographic and blocking companies from accessing that is also I blow to free economic principles.?

Acor stole a few headlines back in September after claims that following pressure from a porn media outlet to clamp down unauthorized sites, it blocked free porn sites (such as YouPorn) at the router level.

http://torrentfreak.com/telecom-outf...tizing-071019/

Rodent · 10-19-2007, 05:10 PM

What if that Arcor is just using a ad company and that ad company is dumping the ads on the torrent sites. And pretty funny the govt is telling companies where they can adverties.

minusonebit · 10-19-2007, 05:13 PM

heh, thats easily evaded. Hire a third party to manage their ads and let it rip.

DamageX · 10-19-2007, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Aussie Rebel

?Telling companies which web sites they are allowed to advertise on is a big step towards a non-neutral Internet. P2P web sites consist of a hard to reach demographic and blocking companies from accessing that is also I blow to free economic principles.?

Stealing = free economic principles?

Geez, some of these idiots really need to get their heads checked...

jakethedog · 10-19-2007, 05:18 PM

i think it is good .. sounds like a decent way to stop piracy .. slow the revenue coming in from advertising from every angle and eventually we are down free sites actually having to charge for memberships to support bandwidth costs .. hmm .. kinda gonna defeat the whole purpose of the site if you ask me .. good on them ..

Aussie Rebel · 10-19-2007, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamageX

Stealing = free economic principles?

Geez, some of these idiots really need to get their heads checked...

Hey Damage how come your nick isn't green yet mate?

DamageX · 10-19-2007, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Aussie Rebel

Hey Damage how come your nick isn't green yet mate?

Because it doesn't happen automatically and I don't really care enough to ask for it.

sortie · 10-19-2007, 05:37 PM

Wow, they can't advertise with websites that are stealing thus providing funding and incentive for more stealing?
What a concept.

10-19-2007, 03:55 PM	#1
Aussie Rebel Blow Me U Geeks Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Maximum Security Posts: 5,108	Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing I thought this was interesting, any comments? Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing A federation of video and media outlets has taken out an injunction against a major telecoms company to forbid them from advertising on a BitTorrent site and any other P2P site in the future. harvard p2p Arcor, the fixed network operator for Vodafone in Germany has received an injunction forbidding it to advertize on P2P sites in the future. The injunction was issued by the state court in Frankfurt after the German Association of Video and Media Retailers has complained that Arcor had been advertizing on the BitReactor.to BitTorrent tracker, a site it claims is used to facilitate the sharing of movies, tv shows and music. The court agreed with the complaint and declared that Arcor must stop advertizing on P2P services or face fines in the future. TorrentFreak spoke the administrator of the popular BitTorrent site btjunkie, and he said in a response to this news: ?Telling companies which web sites they are allowed to advertise on is a big step towards a non-neutral Internet. P2P web sites consist of a hard to reach demographic and blocking companies from accessing that is also I blow to free economic principles.? Acor stole a few headlines back in September after claims that following pressure from a porn media outlet to clamp down unauthorized sites, it blocked free porn sites (such as YouPorn) at the router level. http://torrentfreak.com/telecom-outf...tizing-071019/

10-19-2007, 05:10 PM	#2
Rodent Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: ReliableServers.Com Posts: 1,462	What if that Arcor is just using a ad company and that ad company is dumping the ads on the torrent sites. And pretty funny the govt is telling companies where they can adverties. __________________ Choopa.com Colocation \| Cloud Servers \| Dedicated Servers \| CDN 1000 Gbps Network \| NJ DataCenters

10-19-2007, 05:18 PM	#5
jakethedog Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Vancouver B.C. Posts: 2,497	i think it is good .. sounds like a decent way to stop piracy .. slow the revenue coming in from advertising from every angle and eventually we are down free sites actually having to charge for memberships to support bandwidth costs .. hmm .. kinda gonna defeat the whole purpose of the site if you ask me .. good on them .. __________________ No sig .. just me

10-19-2007, 05:37 PM	#8
sortie Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 7,771	Wow, they can't advertise with websites that are stealing thus providing funding and incentive for more stealing? What a concept. __________________

10-19-2007, 05:13 PM	#3
minusonebit So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: [email protected] Posts: 7,391	heh, thats easily evaded. Hire a third party to manage their ads and let it rip.