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China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites
frogger writes "China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently, however, several reports came in from China indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine Baidu."
Doesn't word hijack imply something else? More like hacked, took over, infiltrated? But use word like hijack for redirect is pretty ridiculous.
You haven't really answered the question. Technically every successful business in the US has "government connections" too. You can't even start a small business without paying a bunch of fees and buying a bunch of permits.
Yeah, that would be really funny, how the Chinese government would come in the middle of the night, take them, their family, and likely anyone else that knew or cared about them, and drop them in a hole somewhere, never to be heard from again. Yeah, that's fucking hilarious.
Some ISPs are hijacking DNS, granted not to torrenting sites. Closest thing I can think
In America, the line between business and government is very fuzzy, especially with Big Content, Big Corn, and Haliburton.
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
Sometimes it is overt, as you have said with 51% direct ownership by the government, while other times it is more covert, in the form of companies or businesses which are owned, wholly or partly, by the Chinese army or by a Chinese citizen who is politically well connected but otherwise doesn't contribute much to the venture, the proverbial son of the boss. This seems to be getting better with time as Chinese businessmen and entrepreneurs with greater business acumen displace less competent political favorites despite being handicapped by government corruption.
Okay, do you have any evidence, beyond hearsay, that this actually happens?
I hear about this kind of shit all the time (mostly in comments on Slashdot), but here I am in China, and I've never heard of anything like this happening.
Frankly, I think it's mostly hyperbolic bullshit. And it's increasing. Is it time for another red scare?
Apparently you can opt out of that if you have an account. Not sure on the details as I've never used it.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you lived in Nazi Germany, you'd never hear of disappearances either. It's not like the secret police operate in public view, with due process and arrest records, etc. They might be coming for you now...
similar to how in France, while on business trips, you assume you are being bugged and information will go to your local competition
Wow, xenophobic much? I knew US-Americans have an irrational hate for the French, but this really takes the cake...
Do you have ANY evidence for that, any serious reports, anything at all? For that matter, have you ever travelled internationally? Outside your home state? Left your parents' basement?
No? Thought so.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you lived in Nazi Germany, you'd never hear of disappearances either.
Yes, you would, you would just pretend not to notice. You cannot make millions of people, mostly from urban areas, disappear without anyone noticing.
They are communist - maybe not true USSR communism
Russia isn't a true Communist state any more than the United States. They're totalitarians, pure and simple. Of course, the United States isn't a democracy either. That's mostly because when implemented on a truly large scale, neither Communism nor Democracy actually work. Both ideals assume that the human animal is something entirely different than what it really is, and both fail because of it.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.