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ISP Block on Pirate Bay Not Having Desired Effect
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.'"
Although you are correct about English not being the most commonly spoken language (second to Chinese), it is definitely the most spoken language on the internet, which is probably the more relevant point of discussion [http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm]. Also comparing the US against the rest of the world is a ridiculous. The iMDB lists 241697 English movies, certainly a pervasive amount of cultural content. (The iMDB lists an obviously low count of ~4000 Mandarin movies) Anti-americanism has it's place, but not belligerence.