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The Pirate Bay Successfully Appeals Italian Block
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."
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?
Ok, let me try to flamebait this one a little. Do you want one world law? Do you want a world where one country reject certain laws or ignore the law, then everyone around the world can do as well through the Internet? While it might sound like a nice ultra-liberalist ideal it's closer to anarchy than anything else. Do you want a world where the parliaments and courts just throw up their hands and say "Sure, we can outlaw this in OUR country, but it won't stop anyone from getting it from Europe/Asia/Whereever"? Nor would I want the least common denominator with only the content all countries can agree on. In many ways we are one people through the Internet but we don't have one set of laws nor do I think there should one. In some fashion it still ought to be so that my nation makes laws for my people, and your nation makes laws for your people. Leaving such a huge loophole as the Internet is the same as not enforcing the law which means it in practise will cease to be law. The majority wouldn't want to break the law in the first place, but if it's not enforced or punished then it won't stop anybody from breaking the law.
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Yes but the chinese tend not to "pirate" so much, rather they make a duplicate of something so it "looks and feels" almost the same as the original.
The missus bought a Chinese "Nokia 99i", believe it or not ... picked it up in some shady market for about 100 bucks ... it's got pretty much all the functionality of the real N95, plus a TV tuner built in. Of course, it also has that chinese chip that burns out 1 millisecond AFTER the warranty has expired, but as this one didn't even come with a warranty, let alone a box, even switching it on tends to be a game of Russian Roulette these days.
Oh and like everything else made in China these days, it has a port of MAME with all the old favorites like 1942, Donkey Kong etc ... I swear to god, they do that with every electronic device these days. Want a DVD player ? comes with games ... want a TV ? comes with games ... want a bloody toaster ? comes with games.
So why exactly would they want to access the Pirate Bay ... they'll simply roll their own copy instead.