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Deutsch: The Pirate Bay könnte in Italien verboten werden
An appeal won on 24 September 2008 against the decision of the Italian court enforced on 10 August 2008 ordering the seizure of The Pirate Bay (TPB) in Italy, has been reversed by the Italian Court of Cassation.
The Order of the Justice for preliminary investigation of the Court of Bergamo issued on in August 2008 was asking for the "seizure" of the PirateBay website for displaying links to allegedly illegal duplicated material and was forcing Italian ISPs to block the access to that site. Following the EDRi-member ALCEI report to the Italian Data Protection Authority showing violations of the law in the seizure order, the Bergamo Criminal Court overruled the seizure but only on a procedural basis. Now the Italian Court of Cassation has addmitted the recourse of the Bergamo Prosecutors and has decided to send back the case to the first comptent court.
TPB can once again be blocked in Italy, to the satisfaction of FIMI, the major representative body of the Italian record labels which, early this year, together with anti-piracy organisation FPM, filed a 1 million euro damages lawsuit against the site on behalf of the Italian music industry.
In the meantime in Sweden, in TPB's appeal case against the ruling from April 2009, judge Fredrik Niemelä has been disqualified by the Appeal Court from the hearing planned for November 2009 for holding stock options in Spotify digital music service.
Italian Appeals Court Rules against Pirate Bay (1.10.2009)
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3ie41d1967dbc...
Cassation: The un-seizure of TPB is revised (only in Italian, 30.09.2009)
http://punto-informatico.it/2718088/PI/News/cassazione-dissequestro-de...
Baia, the judge takes sides. But with whom? (only in Italian, 30.09.2009)
http://punto-informatico.it/2717757/PI/News/baia-giudice-parte-ma-qual...
EDRi-gram: An update on the Italian PirateBay case (8.08.2009)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.19/update-piratebay-italy