Pirate Bay forces Swedish ISP to remove Allofmp3.com blocking

[TankGirl]

Yarrr!!! It took only 10 days of active campaigning from the Swedish pirates to force the service provider Perspektiv Bredband to have a change of heart about blocking the Russian online music site Allofmp3.com. Less than a week after the ISP started blocking Allofmp3.com - following lobbying from the copyright organizations - Piratbyrån announced its counter campaign where the main weapon was to block the popular torrent site Pirate Bay from all Perspektiv customers. This lead to a large number of angry calls to Perspektiv's customer service and in the fear of losing heaps of customers Perspektiv announced yesterday in an apologizing tone that they regret their 'hasty' decision and that they have removed the blocking. They even emphasized how important it is for ISPs to remain in their neutral common carrier role. This case demonstrates well how influential the pirates have come in Sweden. P2P is the main motivation for people to get broadband and a boycott by the world's most popular torrent site has more weight in Sweden than political pressure from the copyright cartels.