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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. Oblig. Quote: by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it."

    -- John Gilmore

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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:Oblig. Quote: by mpe · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And the Net also has another interesting trait. It seems operate with a variation of Netwon's 3rd law. For every action there is an opposite + magnified reaction.

      This has more to do with human behaviour and predates "the Net".
      Banning (or attempting to ban) just about anything is actually a very good way of advertising something. People who would otherwise never have heard about the whatever wanting to find out what all the fuss is about.

  2. Re:This is exactly... by ivan256 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unfortunately, they probably did. I know several well paid network engineers and sysadmins who really have no understanding of how the internet works, and would think a local ISP DNS block would work. The typical training for these positions is heavy on the "how", and light on the "why".

  3. Truth, ignorance, and condoms. by erick99 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is absolutely true but most folks in government (worldwide) don't seem to get that. It's as if the people who typically go after Internet issues haven't spent much time using it outside of checking the weather and ordering condoms (size extra small) from Amazon.

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  4. Streisand effect by Phyrexicaid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, does no one advise upper management that trying to block something on the internet just draws *more* attention to it? Happens over and over.

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  5. Re:This is exactly... by xappax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps the ISP itself does not agree with the spirit of the censorship, and are merely going through the motions to satisfy the court and cover their asses. Basically, maybe they don't care whether people get around the block.

  6. 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.

  7. They know very well this doesn't work by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The tele2 tech guys I know are quite competent. It is just that it is not in their, not in their employers, interest to implement an effective filter. So they do the absolutely minimal amount of work they have to do, in order to comply with this "small claims" court order.

  8. It's going to court by MortenLJ · · Score: 5, Informative

    An article in a mainstream Danish newspaper says that the case is going to court, other ISP's are actually chipping in to fund Tele2's suit against the imposed restriction.