Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing
 

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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.

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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/

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.

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

Stealing = free economic principles? :1orglaugh

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

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 ..

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. :)

Wow, they can't advertise with websites that are stealing thus providing funding and incentive for more stealing?
What a concept. :1orglaugh