EU ruling states that merely embedding pirated material is not illegal.

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Italian Court Overturned “Pirate” Site Blockade



Kisstube.tv was blocked by Italian ISPs following mass court action against 150+ domains for embedding movies, some of them infringing, but hosted on other platforms. Now the Court of Appeal overturned the blockade referring to an EU ruling, which states that merely embedding pirated content is not illegal.
A month ago, the Italian police blocked over 150 websites involved in the illegal video streaming after obtained a mass injunction from a local judge in Rome in somewhat largest ever blocking operation in Italy. However, one of the targeted sites fought back and succeeded thanks to an EU ruling.
It must be explained that Kisstube.tv is an index for movies hosted elsewhere. Its archives contain plenty of content in Italian and English, mainly stored on YouTube. Until the November sweeping action, the site had never received any infringement complaints and took its case to the Court of Appeal, arguing that it should have never been ordered to be blocked. Surprisingly enough, the Court agreed and overturned the injunction against Kisstube.
Kisstube.tv explains that it cannot know whether the embedded content is copyrighted films and allowed on YouTube, but it points out that in this case it should have been YouTube that removed any pirated content, while the site that simply embeds the videos cannot be held responsible.
The Court of Appeals considered two rulings from the European Court of Justice before handing down the decision. The first ruling involves the company accusing two men of copyright infringement after they embedded that company’s promotional video in their website in a YouTube frame. Indeed, the video was uploaded to YouTube without the company’s permission, but the Court ruled that embedding the content in a third-party website did not amount to copyright infringement. Another ruling involved a Dutch blog, which published an article linking to leaked Playboy images stored on file-hosting site FileFactory.
Despite the favorable ruling, Kisstube representatives admit that the future may be more complex, because new suggested rules can limit the freedoms of websites that rely on user-uploaded content.

Source: TorrentFreak
 
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Yeah but everybody knows that you are uploading the content yourself, you can act aslong as you want lolz
 
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