Resumen de France: : French IAPs ordered to block access to Pirate Bay sites
After Allostreaming in November 2013 (see IRIS 2014-1/23), it is the turn of the Pirate Bay constellation to be blocked by order of the regional court in Paris.
SCPP, the company which collects and redistributes royalties for a catalogue covering more than 80% of the recognised rights held by the producers of phonograms, had produced proof that the Pirate Bay site was offering links to download phonograms in its repertoire. The phonograms at issue were both old and new and by artists of both French and other nationalities. Having had no success in asking the said site to delete the links at issue, SCPP had most of the French Internet access providers (IAPs) (Orange, Free and Bouygues, which together represent 90% of Internet users) summoned to appear in court under the urgent procedure on the basis of Article L. 336-2 of the Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Intellectual Property Code - CPI), calling on them to implement every possible means of preventing access from anywhere in France to the disputed site and to redirected websites, mirror sites (copies of the original site) and proxies (intermediary servers collecting content downloaded from the original site) which make it possible to access the site.
