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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."
DRTFA, but I'm guessing that they are doing this at the DNS level. So yeah, they're not getting the use of their domain name within China back unless the PRC says so. If that is the case, I would call that a hijack.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but anyway...
Surely even the most dim-witted super-conservative would realise that even under Obama, USA is still the most conservative nation outside of the middle east and Austria. Therefore, calling Obama socialist (as a pejorative) is calling the rest of the world socialists (or worse). Given the vast number of western countries that are "socialist" and have been for some time, (and are still going strong sans economic crisis) the next logical conclusion is "Well, maybe "socialism" works?" (not that what Obama is advocating is actual socialism by any accepted definition of the word).
Sorry for the offtopic.
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
Since when has the U.S. directed thepiratebay.org (or suprnova, or mininova, or demonoid, etc.) to google.com?
They send you to jail instead?
Well not if you don't live in the U.S. Even if you do live there, I don't remember any recent file sharing cases ending in jail time. Fees that turn your life into indentured servitude maybe, but not jail.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
Just wondering, does Baidu have government connections?
All Chinese companies have government connections. Well, they do if they want to have the slightest chance of being successful. That's what operating in a fascist-capitalist state means.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Let me rephrase: Is the government connection overt or covert? I have spent time in communist companies, with ventures owned 51% by the government, and I am wondering if this is one of those, a bit shady, or just a local company that the government would like to encourage growth of (similar to how in France, while on business trips, you assume you are being bugged and information will go to your local competition).
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
... but I think corruption, hostility, and theft are stronger words. I've heard time and time again that it's in "Chinese culture to copy" and that copyright and patent law is foreign to not only the country, but their ethics.
While we certainly don't lead a prime example of IP law, I believe China is simply trying to cheat their way to becoming a super power. When their actions do not coincide with what they claim, it is clear they cannot and SHOULD NOT be trusted.
If it's in Chinese Culture to copy, why take down BitTorrent websites? If this was a disciplinary action, how can we trust them when attempting to visit the blocked websites leads to a Chinese company? This is just another play at "cheating the system." It isn't a perfect system by any means, but it is the one the Western world has established and all successful countries adhere to.
Hahahahahahaha
China is communist in nothing but name. You really need to go there and check it out. China is a place for the rich, and the business men. The peasants have barely any rights at all, although this is changing, albiet, slowly.
You can see, from one of China's own newspapers, that social welfare only meets 5% of demand. And even that is probably pushing it.
The Unicode standard is over 20 years old. Why does Slashdot not support it?
If China isn't capitalistic, no place on earth is. Money is everything in China, you can bribe and do almost anything things with money.
For example, with money, you can dig up all the earth around a household you don't like, force people to work in hazard environments, dump toxic waste to your neighbour, and have people cut off their arms and legs, etc... just because you have money!
Pure capitalism to its finest.
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.
You're being pedantic. I took the GP to mean: does this major Chinese corporation have government contacts that demonstrate blatant favoratism? The answer (as with most Chinese businesses relative to foreign competition) is "yes".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I have gone there and have friends there. you and your co-poster are mistaking corruption for capitalism.
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I don't think that fits any reasonable definition of capitalism, unless there's actually a market in the amputation of other people's arms and legs. Capitalism is an economic system. That's just corruption.
It's much easier that way. Certainly the NSA has been known to monitor communications between Airbus and its customers in order to give Boeing a competitive advantage; a $6bn contract with the Saudis was lost when American spies found out about some backhanders Airbus had been paying to officials there. They've also been known to forward technical details of European inventions to American firms in order to get the patent first. There's quite a history of Americans using state spying agencies for industrial espionage, and so it's natural that they assume that everybody else is doing the same to them.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
I knew US-Americans have an irrational hate for the French, but this really takes the cake...
Wow, ignorant of Americans much? I could almost mistake your comment as some kind of irrational, or at least uninformed, dislike of Americans. But I'm pretty sure you're just talking out of your hat, so I don't need to take it the wrong way.
I would recommend that you do a little research on the history of military/industrial espionage between the United States and France. It's actually very interesting, and after spending some time informing yourself, you might find the GP's comment less xenophobic. France and the U.S. go 'way back, and neither country has ever been above a little friendly spying.
Oddly, most Americans don't really hate people from other countries. We joke about them (just as they make jokes about us) but some people (like you, I guess) mistake that for "irrational hate." In any event, most of our hatred is directed at ourselves. We don't have enough to spare for the rest of you, sorry. You'll have to go elsewhere.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.