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Court rules UK ISP's must block The Pirate Bay
Jason
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176
Not really surprised by this ruling, not that it'll have much effect.
Virgin have the right mindset though ..
Not really surprised by this ruling, not that it'll have much effect.
Virgin have the right mindset though ..
"As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media complies with court orders addressed to the company but strongly believes that changing consumer behaviour to tackle copyright infringement also needs compelling legal alternatives, such as our agreement with Spotify, to give consumers access to great content at the right price."
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As far as i can see with the likes of cowell raking in tens of millions, untalented people like that justin beiber guy buying a mansion at his young age, there is no shortage of cash kicking about.
there is a little irony that that **** bieber made his name giving away his music for free on youtube. until he became famous.
bunch of *****.
Not that it matters too much anyway as the next big thing on the horizon is major government driven traffic shaping and filtering. No doubt this will mean only 3 sites will be uncensored in the UK, more than likely one of these will not be .gov.uk domains due to some monumental cock-up.
I know of another one that has lots of seeders with the majority of its torrents. They're trying to win a battle that they'll never win. There's an absolute TON of download sources out there. Yet again, their egos are taking control.
What does it matter? Most of your seeds will come from DHT anyway. Most of the trackers return an error (for me) anyway
The Pirate Bay isn't even that good. It's like stopping you shopping at Lidl. No big loss.
It's crazy really. They're complaining about something they're doing themselves. It's absolute craziness.
but everyone seems far too concerned with protecting their own backsides and sticking to something that's completely outdated.
The Great Firewall of the UK has arrived. Linux (distros are primarily distributed by P2P), Google (accused of providing links to copyrighted material plus alleged fair use abuse), left wing commentators and other websites and people to be silenced next I fear.
I also note the same fallacies are being used here by supporters of this move (ie. those against the move indulge & support piracy, etc) as was used earlier this year for SOPA and PIPA.
And the biggest tragedy, this move will do nothing to hit piracy.
China, Iran and Syria must be envying what we have done today.
saying that, if they understood the technology in the first place and did something positive about it rather than trying to litigate the problem away, maybe piracy wouldn't be so widespread...
Are you for real?
China are envious of the UK judge ruling that 4 ISPs have to block a website that will no doubt be accessible for people with other ISPs and then theres issue of proxies and other means?
I hope we have nothing like China in terms of Internet censorship.
I do not like this ruling because it will not stop copyright infringement, it's utterly pointless and means people look to alternative means. The issue of pricing and such needs to be addressed.
I think you were a bit wrong when you talk about banning left-wing commentators. I have the view that I do not want political blogs or news or anything political to be censored. Whether it'#s points I agree with or not.
This bit doesn;t make any sense, needs rephrasing, seems contradictory I think.
Not far off. Any censorship is excessive on a massive scale. Obviously censoring your own internal networks and systems is fine, but at some point up the chain someone needs to be able to do unfiltered things and be trusted to be allowed to do what they want. This point is getting further and further away.
Pointless because there are any number of ways to get around web blocking and a quick search will get you a step by step guide on how to set up a proxy or a VPN. The owners of the site could also set up a new site within minutes under a new name (Newzbin/newzbin2 anyone?). It is a pointless game of whack-a-mole that is costing the government and the entertainment industry an absolute fortune, and what is the result? Kill one site and a new one takes it's place(hence the whack-a-mole analogy).
Now for the dangerous part. This is not going to stop with sites distributing pirated material. What is to stop the government from having any site hosted by political activists shut down? Any site that displays an opinion that goes against the establishment would be in danger of being blocked and you can kiss goodbye to freedom of speech.
Erm, no. we haven;t got one now and it's getting further away.
All this nonsense about "its the the internet, we can do WHATEVER we like, WHENEVER we like, because its the INTERNET!!!!!!!!" simply shows arrogance . The golden age of theft is drawing to an end.
No it isn't. It is evolving.
Funny thing is, it's ignorant measures like this that'll just encourage people to find other sources and ways around it. Now those very same people who relied on The Pirate Bay will discover there's a wider world out there than that soon to be blocked site. That's what happens when you deal with the symptoms rather than the cause: the disease strikes back even harder.
Indeed.