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Italian Court Rules ISPs Must Block Access To Pirate Bay

Posted by timothy on from the triremes-on-patrol dept.

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."

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  1. Is tecnically feasible? by Tei · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

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    1. Re:Is tecnically feasible? by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Informative

      The ruling says any site that offers torrent links to connect to copyrighted material is "engaging in criminal activity," says TF.

      http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Atorrent+pirates

      We learned from Napster & Grokster.
      Torrent sites & trackers are convienent, but not at all necessary.
      Between DHT, Peer Exchange, and magnet links you can't really kill bittorrent.

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  2. Re:Time for a judicial bank account audit... by calmofthestorm · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

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  3. Re:Censoring communication because a corp says so by mhollis · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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