Your Opinion On The Blocked Websites From UK
Jonathan1990
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If anyone doesn't know dozens of websites have now been blocked from many UK servers by The High Courts. Even though there is one site that I use to go on a few years ago to listen to music I really think it's been a good idea as people's computers were getting lots of viruses and breaking. It has also reduced the number of junk email on MSN Hotmail. There were people getting into trouble on some of those websites and something had to get done about it. It may have made the internet a bit safer for UK but there are still lots of bad website out there.
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There are no blocked sites for the vast majority of web users in the UK, censorship by unelected judges should not be tolerated.
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3. Profit.
Having said that a subscription to Netflix for films and Spotify for music is pretty much peanuts so it's pretty cheap to get your entertainments legally.
Think there's a saying for that. (:p)
My opinion is the government should be concentrating their supposed limited resources on other more important things than blocking torrent sites. How about terrorism, kiddy porn, etc, etc.
Well to be fair they are only blocking ones that host pirated films in many ways no different to shutting down Dodgy Dave and his knocked off DVD's.
That said when Dodgy Dave goes down there is always Knock Off Nigel to take his place or you just have to find out what street corner or pub Dave has moved to
Really?
Really? I'd love to read that source. Can you link to it please?
Really???
May be wrong, but think you have misunderstood the reason for those websites being blocked. It has nothing to do with them breaking computers by giving them viruses, the reason is an attempt to cut piracy.
Also not sure what you mean by reducing junk email as it's not really necessary to provide an email address on those websites.
As others have said, if you still want to access these websites, there are ways around the blocks.
Before anyone says, OEM version for laptop where the drive had gone belly up. The laptop took it as legal and MS activated it
Reporters Without Borders now classes the UK (and the USA too) as, "Enemies of the internet". The same catergory the likes of Iran, China, North Korea and Saudi Arabia fall under. Pretty disgraceful really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country
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Also, some stuff about how the golden age of yadda yadda yadda....
Release films all over the world at roughly the same time and that would help . Some films we get 1 or 2 months after the u.s and I don't want to wait .
I don't get it, how are they paying for all those servers and all that bandwidth?
Of course this should in no way be seen as encouraging non BT users to experiment - all the sites listed are very bad, and possibly cause cooties. Fortunately as a BT user I'm totally protected from them
oh yes
If you're talking about torrent sites, how exactly is the internet safer by blocking them?
Theory is that it'll convert to a pay service once there are sufficient users.
All 'blocking' really achieves is stopping those accessing a site that they probably didn't really want to access anyway.