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The Pirate Bay Successfully Appeals Italian Block

Posted by timothy on from the by-non-papal-decree dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last month, The Pirate Bay was blocked in Italy. The Swedish tracker appealed the ruling, and have emerged victorious. When they will be back online in Italy is not known, as news of this development is rather fresh."

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  1. Good for them by BorgAssimilator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hopefully this will discourage other nations / organizations from blocking sites like that, but only time will tell, and I don't have my hopes up.

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  2. Encouraging censorship by T0wner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ignoring the legal arguments for once. Do we really want governments to censor what the public sees or does all in the name of protection?

    You don't have to go there if you don't agree with it. You don't have to break the laws of your country if you choose not too. Do most people abide by laws because they're worried about the punishments or because they believe in them? There will always be some who don't, in a democracy it is a majority which matters.

    However in a democracy surely it is important that the people have a choice? In this case the judge has decided it is not for him to decide.

    1. Re:Encouraging censorship by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Interesting point - that laws are able to be broken, and, as such, people can follow them based on belief, fear of punishment, or not at all.

      And, yes, it is the citizen's responsibility to make their own decisions.

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    2. Re:Encouraging censorship by Trogre · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That sounds like a nice idea, but I'll still keep the locks on my house, thanks.

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    3. Re:Encouraging censorship by Artifakt · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm going to try and present a few opposite arguments, recognizing that if yours are flamebait, so are mine, perhaps more so.
            Do we want a world where all crimes are punished so drastically that any potential criminal would have to be insane to risk even a very slight chance of getting caught? While it might sound like a solid conservative's law and order ideal, it's closer to totalitarianism than anything else. Do you want a world where deterrence is so all important that voluntary compliance with the law can never be enough?
            It's a fact that most laws work as well as they do, because many people, usually a substantial majority, agree with them. Where a law is widely considered unfair, it seems to either be changed, or to spawn new laws that exist only to prop up the old ones, so that achieving compliance soon takes whole new volumes of laws. (Witness all the additional drug related laws, setting mandatory minimums, disallowing plea bargaining, making related activities count as conspiracies or criminalizing paraphenalia and not just the drugs themselves. What do all these additional laws exist for, except the majority doesn't really agree with the basic drug laws in the first place, or at the least, is lukewarm in its agreement and a substantial minority disagrees quite strongly.)

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