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Belgian Court Order May Be Too Specific To Actually Block Pirate Bay Domain

Posted by timothy on from the not-responsible-for-thinkographic-errors dept.

bs0d3 writes "Recently, many people from Belgium have been joining The Pirate Bay's and Telecomix's IRC channels, asking for help with the Telecomix DNS, saying that it doesn't work to access www.thepiratebay.org. This is true. The court was very specific in its order, which was to block the domains www.thepiratebay.org, www.thepiratebay.net, www.thepiratebay.com, www.thepiratebay.nu, www.thepiratebay.se, www.piratebay.no, and www.ripthepiratebay.com, or else face a daily penalty of 1000 EUR for every day when defendants do not implement such 'DNS-blocking' in their DNS-servers'. So, obviously in defiance of that, people testing their DNS servers go to the domain www.thepiratebay.org — except, thepiratebay doesn't have the www domain turned on. At one point it redirected to the main page, at the URL thepiratebay.org; now it doesn't, probably because of negligence from the admins. What's interesting is that the court only ordered the block of the www subdomains, so if an ISP wants to make a fuss they should be able to avoid the penalties until a later ruling."

3 of 140 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Classic problem by xstonedogx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You should be more disturbed about the American obsession with feudalism.

  2. Re:Classic problem by dbIII · · Score: 3, Interesting

    could make the case that judges don't generally understand technology, and it would be a valid one

    On the other hand this could be the equivalent of a $1 fine because the law says the Judge has to impose some sort of penalty. Somebody of the course of this trial has to have told the Judge that DNS is analogous to the name and number in a phone book but the number is the important thing and can have several names pointed at it. Judges are rarely stupid especially in places where they have to earn the post through merit instead of election - they mostly get portrayed as stupid by those that have a vested interest in reducing the power of Judges (eg. politicians).

  3. Re:Classic problem by Leebert · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the second amendment grants the right to own a pistol, what about a shutgun? Combat shotgun? Land mines? Loaded bomber plane? Heavy artillary? Missiles? How about a few nuclear weapons?

    I personally believe that the 2nd amendment *does* allow me to have nuclear weapons. I also believe that to be insane. However, the answer to that insanity is not to ignore the law, but to modify the amendment to reflect present-day reality.