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The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy
imhassan tips us to news that The Pirate Bay has been blocked in Italy. Other attempts to block the popular P2P site have been somewhat less than successful. From TorrentFreak:
"Pirate Bay's IPs and the domain name are inaccessible, as they are blocked by ISPs all over the country. Whether these blocks will be very effective, however, is doubtful, since The Pirate Bay has already announced several countermeasures. An insider working at an Internet provider in Italy told TorrentFreak that all the relevant large access ISPs in Italy have complied with the request to block the popular BitTorrent tracker, which was sent out yesterday. Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same prosecutor who is responsible for the Pirate Bay block."
Are the ruling elite in Italy afraid that the people there will learn that the European Union is a utterly corrupt fascist state by watching any of the many completely legal documentaries about it which are available there? Would they have the people in Italy believe that using BitTorrent is somehow illegal when it is perfectly clear that it is a LEGAL protocol? Yes, some sites do mix Copyright-restricted material with completely free content. The TorrentChannel does NOT, but it does have documentaries critical of the EU. Will they block that next? Why are Italy trying to censor the Internet? Good thing there's the https://www.torproject.org/ which the poor people in Italy can and should use to access all the legal content at TPB. Other people should use it too, covert torture for spreading the "wrong" information is all too common within the NATO alliance these days.
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I find the arrogance of the Pirate Bay admin absolutely disgusting. They think they can get away with practically anything. The world would be a much better place without them.
It just goes to show, I guess, how much the Western world is in need of conformity.
While under US law, it's legal to run exit node and no one has been sued, under other countries law's it might be otherwise. For example, 1 dude was running exit node in Finland and his home was raided due to his IP being used for childporn distribution. While he didnt know what was going through his own network, that did not matter. Police raided his home and checked his computer. They found childporn and he got convicted for posession and spreading it.