UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (rcranfield)

Tue, 01 May 2012 07:04:47 GMT

Locking thread. This thread was marginal at best as relates to the TOS regarding both political discussions and piracy. But the most recent posts have pushed it over the line for discussion of piracy.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (agent8)

Tue, 01 May 2012 06:43:31 GMT

ugggg.... I miss the old school Napster days. I actually started getting fan mail from Sweden because of Napster. I shared my entire album on there and got all kinds of coverage. The good old days.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (Kamarad)

Tue, 01 May 2012 05:24:49 GMT

Yea, this will do nothing. Easily worked around.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (boomerman18)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:49:06 GMT

Violation of peoples rights. Great britian is just so fail as we are soon to follow unless people take action.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (AzN-SoLjA)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:14:34 GMT

I miss isohunt xP there was another before that too but it was so long ago I don't remember. Owell, time to go back to mIRC days? lol

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (jimmycricket)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:10:03 GMT

There are much better torrent sites out then TPB, like Demonoid

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (voodoo do-er)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:49:29 GMT

not the fist time
they will changed the ip and dns

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (nik0888)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:44:10 GMT

the pirate bay has been blocked a couple of years here ind Denmark..

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (ealhdun)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:38:33 GMT

Belgium was one of the first countries that forced ISPs to block pirate bay. Of course since the judge's ruling was specific to the pirate bay, they could get away by using DePiraatBaai.

Anyway the governments know they can not really stop those that are intent on using the service, they just want to make it more inconvenient, now if only the next step would be to attract services like Netflix to operate in the EU.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (Chrome-M-Dragon)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:26:37 GMT

Brad_Hawthorne

At best this is a hollow empty gesture and shows the UK government has a lack of fundamental understanding of how to spend 5 seconds and change a DNS server entry to circumvent their DNS blacklist enforcement. There are tons of open public DNS servers globally available from entities like Google. This shows some serious ignorance on the part of the UK. Blacklisting and redirection of IP numbers is only as effective as the DNS you use. If it's actually blacklisting IP numbers, there are thousands of proxy servers out there to deal with that. The implication that the UK is trying to make their own great firewall of China, just as the US is is patently laughable, because it simply doesn't work and is nothing but bad press for those enforcing it.

This is all a slippery slope. Net neutrality means what it means. Everyone should have equal access to all IP regardless of content. If they break laws they do it of their own free will and are free to be cough by law enforcement. Censorship is not the answer. This is like putting speed bumps every 100 yards on interstates to keep people from speeding. It's simply not an effective solution.

That's a big +1 good buddy!

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (bigster)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:55:49 GMT

Nothing new, 2 isp's in the Netherlands had to block TPB a few months ago, one of them is my isp.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (kidcrumb)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:39:42 GMT

The pirate bay doesnt do anything wrong. At least from a standpoint in the U.S. it does not even provide you the torrent files anymore. It hosts both legal and illegal content. It would be like craigslist. Imagine if everyone started selling drugs on craigslist. The government could go after those buying/selling but not shut down thee site because it does nothing wrong. It just hosts files for people to share.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (Louiiis)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:20:36 GMT

This just proves that politicans and the judges are so far out of touch with 99% of society it's not even funny. They should all be sacked and replaced with those who have the competency to undertake such a position.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (agent8)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:13:00 GMT

You tell em Brad!!!

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (Brad_Hawthorne)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:11:43 GMT

At best this is a hollow empty gesture and shows the UK government has a lack of fundamental understanding of how to spend 5 seconds and change a DNS server entry to circumvent their DNS blacklist enforcement. There are tons of open public DNS servers globally available from entities like Google. This shows some serious ignorance on the part of the UK. Blacklisting and redirection of IP numbers is only as effective as the DNS you use. If it's actually blacklisting IP numbers, there are thousands of proxy servers out there to deal with that. The implication that the UK is trying to make their own great firewall of China, just as the US is is patently laughable, because it simply doesn't work and is nothing but bad press for those enforcing it.

This is all a slippery slope. Net neutrality means what it means. Everyone should have equal access to all IP regardless of content. If they break laws they do it of their own free will and are free to be cough by law enforcement. Censorship is not the answer. This is like putting speed bumps every 100 yards on interstates to keep people from speeding. It's simply not an effective solution.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (agent8)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:55:19 GMT

That is r-tarded. The last time I checked, we lived in america... Oh...wait...nevermind.

Re:UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (muskie32)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:43:56 GMT

Sucks for UK

Will be soon when it hits the US though...

UK ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay (Bkatt)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:36:03 GMT

http://www.gamasutra.com/...ock_The_Pirate_Bay.php

And so it starts. ISP's getting ordered to block websites from public access. But its the UK so it does not effect everyone else right?
So hello to New China.

I wonder if this is ACTA's doing.
AKA the "Treaty" That was signed under everyone noses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...eiting_Trade_Agreement
No this is not SOPA or or another US political thread about it.