13.08.2014 - 14:48 [ Techdirt ]

Recording Industry Exec Says It‘s Not Censorship To Block Sites He Doesn‘t Like

We see this kind of claim every so often, but usually not from a high-ranking legacy entertainment industry executive. However, TorrentFreak has the story of how the CEO of IFPI in Austria (IFPI is basically the international RIAA), Franz Medwenitsch, claiming that blocking websites like the Pirate Bay isn‘t censorship, because how can it be censorship to block stuff that he doesn‘t like?