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ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the never-underestimate-the-pirates dept.

TechDirt is reporting that the recent block placed on The Pirate Bay torrent site is not only relatively ineffective, but actually driving more traffic to the site because of the attention. "The news from The Pirate Bay appears to confirm this suspicion. According to The Pirate Bay's new Court Blog, Danish traffic has not dropped since the implementation of the block. '...the number of visits from Denmark has increased by 12% thanks to IFPI,' the blog post reads. 'Our site http://thejesperbay.org is growing more because of the media attention than people actually coming to learn how to bypass the filter - our guess is that alot of the users on the site now run OpenDNS instead of the censoring DNS at Tele2.dk.' 'We also started tracking some stats before and after the block. There's no noticeable difference between the number of users from Tele2.dk before and after.'"

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  1. Re:Oblig. Quote: by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    YAARRRRR!!! Ye be right, Matey! It be Gasparilla here in Tampa, and thar be pirates! Ye shall not censor us, ye Landubbers! Now walk the plank! YAAAARRRRR!!!!!

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  2. Re:In Other News... by techpawn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stayed tuned for more from the Blatantly Obvious News Network!
    Wait... B.O.N.N? Are you saying something about the hygiene of your average slashdotter too?
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  3. Appropriate quote at the bottom of the page by kryten_nl · · Score: 2, Funny

    A furore Normanorum libera nos, O Domine! [From the fury of the norsemen deliver us, O Lord!] -- Medieval prayer

    I always thought those were random :)

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  4. That was a rhetorical question, right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    did any of the legislators consult a single tech guy?

    Of course they did, because married tech guys are just too hard to find.

    1. Re:That was a rhetorical question, right? by sm62704 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why, I have a wife at my house. She's not mine of course but she's there... if you follow that link you will see the phrase "unfuckable nerd" more than once.

      Don't bother with the link, it isn't worth it. Really. Nothing there but whores, alcoholics, an alien and and a needle junkie. Nothing you're not dealing with every day, ya know?

      -mcgrew

      (-1 offtopic, except for the comment it is responding to. Is your head about to asplode, mr. mod?)

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    2. Re:That was a rhetorical question, right? by Syberghost · · Score: 2, Funny

      On the contrary, we're easy to find, because we're not allowed to go anywhere.

  5. Re:OpenDNS by mrbcs · · Score: 2, Funny
    Thanks for the tip! Open dns works perfectly.

    Now do you know how to get around a damn ISP port 25 block when my domain email host won't offer a different port?

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  6. Re:Truth, ignorance, and condoms. by sm62704 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Condoms from Amazon? Are they like, really really BIG condoms for warrior women?

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  7. Re:Problem - Solution by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    The thing I learned was "If it compiles, ship it"

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  8. No by Canar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't remember CD drives like that at all.

    QED?

  9. Re:Oblig. Quote: by PirateBlis · · Score: 1, Funny

    YAAARRR Our booty still be safe from the pillagin' of them bandwith withholdin' scallywags!