Number of blocked sites reaches 90 in Portugal – PT Journal

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” Censorship “shouts the Pirate Party: by order of the General Inspection of Cultural Activities (IGAC ), telecom operators have blocked 90 sites. At issue is the practice of piracy. When the IGAC sends bar, users turn to other mechanisms for accessing sites.

In practice, the operators (Meo, Cabovisão, Vodafone and In) block is access to sites, as if these were housed in international servers are outside the purview of IGAC.

According to the Journal News, the IGAC has sent a list of 90 sites along the recent weeks, so that operators would block the access. But all this, says the Party Portuguese Pirate Movement (MPPP), is nothing but a “show off” the authorities.

“All this that the General Inspection of Cultural Activities is to do no more than show off , because they know very well that by blocking or not, people access to sites in it. Users simply use other mechanisms (proxies, TOR, DNS changes, other torrent sites) to access the information they want, “he argued the founder and general secretary, André Rosa.

Cited unmarked by TVI24 a source of IGAC explained that the sites in question are “distributed copyrighted works independently of any authorization of the rights holders, illegally”

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leader of MPPP disagreed with the argument put forward by the authorities (copyright protection, violated the piracy of content) in this’ game ‘cat and mouse’ whose sole purpose will be to continue to pretend that the culture of farmers still provide some service society or culture “

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For MPPP, the blocking of access is” censorship “and no copyright protection or other:” We are against any kind of censorship and this is just one more. In our view (and has even been proven in court), the law only prohibits the uploading of content, ie, agreeing or not with the law, it only punishes those who put their contents in sharing sites (and not pirates like sell). Not least because these sites do not share only content protected by copyright, “explained André Rosa.

As for the authors, according to André Rosa told the JN have been destroyed by” middlemen “who” steal money of creators and artists to blatant “

The MAPiNET. – Civic Movement Anti Piracy on the Internet, through the Secretary General Carlos Eugenio, admitted at the same newspaper, that users quickly learn to bypass blockages but believes in the deterrent effect of the measure.

“The agreement does not solve 100 percent of situations, but what we get is very positive,” said Carlos Eugenio.

The list of IGAC arises in compliance with the memorandum of understanding signed by various entities, including telecom operators and anti-piracy associations.