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Italian Court Rules ISPs Must Block Access To Pirate Bay
introt writes "After first being blocked in 2008, an Italian court has once again ruled that ISPs in the nation must block access to the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, leaving millions of users without access to one of the most popular sites on the planet. In the original case, after an appeal by the Pirate Bay, the Court of Bergamo ruled that foreign websites cannot be blocked over alleged copyright infringement. Fast forward until today and the Supreme Court has ruled that ISPs can indeed be forced to block torrent sites, even if they are foreign-based."
You can pretty much use any VPN, Proxy, TOR, etc.. maybe a DNS entry to avoid blocking. Is this like ruling against the clouds stoping the sun from warming the empirer body or something?
-Woof woof woof!
But when network experts say that the tracker doesn't distribute the information, they're not just employing a legal defense; they're telling you that blocking it that way won't work.
Case in point, you can use Tor to access the tracker and still enjoy the same peer-to-peer speeds as anyone.
Here is a BT tracker comparison table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_tracker_software
I think that's obvious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi
How to Be a Facist Leader:
1) Use media empire to prop up election campaign and suppress opponents ...
2) Use government to prop up media empire and bog down competitors in silly regulation (eg YouTube broadcasting license)
3)
4) Allegedly molest barely legal girl, pissing off wife
5) Profit!
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
Are they going to block google too?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=avatar+torrent
Hooray
Are they planning to block Google too? You can find a crap load of torrents through simple google searches. Not to mention (as the article does) all the other specific .torrent search sites. Or proxies. Or tor. Or rapidshit. Or FTP. Or Usenet. Or other P2P networks/apps. (AD INFINITUM)
That's not really all that scary, mykos. After the US Supreme court Decision that gives corporations the right to spend any amount of money to influence elections in the US, the corporations are now able to be the government that regulates the corporations that tell us what is OK for us to communicate and do.
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
They should know Ctrl-Shft-Esc instead. Takes you straight to the Windows Task Manager.
It isn't that hard to understand why a court might not be fans of a website whose content is at least 95% links to stuff that is illegal!
The only things found on torrent servers that is illegal are things like child pornography. Movies aren't illegal. Songs aren't illegal. I doubt PirateBay links to anything actually illegal to watch or listen to.
With or without PirateBay the torrents themselves are still legal to access.
Edith Keeler Must Die
The only things found on torrent servers that is illegal are things like child pornography. Movies aren't illegal. Songs aren't illegal. I doubt PirateBay links to anything actually illegal to watch or listen to.
None of those series of bits are illegal per se. Perhaps, possessing them, creating them, copying them, or distributing them... But no thing is illegal, only actions are.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
The function of the court system is to interpret the law in such a way that justice is served.
You can make that argument about a common law system, but Italy has a civil law system. In which case you are 100% wrong, the function of the court system there is merely to apply the law as written. Questions of justice don't enter into it.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Probably. This whole thing copyright crusade just turned for the worse, now that the biggest Dutch investment agency (ABP, the pension fund for civil servants) last week announced (in a very small article) that they were moving into copyrights, because that is were currently most of the money is being made. The invested a small part of their portfolio, a few billion euro (small change), and were thinking of expanding because it was so profitable.
So if you think it can't get any worse: it will become much, much worse.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Time isn't money. Time is the non-spatial continuum in which events occur linearly, typically in order of increasing entropy.
Easy solution:
Don't buy games with any DRM and if you aren't sure let the early adopters find out for you.
Games, like music, are a "want", not a "need".
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