Music Industry Pushing For BT To Block Pirate Bay

First time accepted submitter mariocki writes "British music industry body BPI has requested BT block access to Pirate Bay. In response, BT say they will only do so if they receive a court order. But after BT recently lost a court case forcing them to block Newzbin, it looks like it's a case of when — not if — this will happen."

Comments

Alternate DNS/routing.

[GNULinuxGuy]

Methinks alternate DNS and routing methods are about to get a lot more popular in the UK.

Re:What is BT? What is BPI?

[mirix]

The oldest telecom in the world, with 100k employees in its current state, traded on both LSE and NYSE under the name 'BT'. Part of the FTSE index.

It used to be part of the post office. It was owned by the crown until fucking thatcher came along.

Useless

[ocean_soul]

In Belgium ISP's have to block thepiratebay.org. This was ordered by a court a few weeks ago. So know everyone here uses depiraatbaai.be, which is just the name translated to Dutch. Shows the uselessness of trying to block something on the internet...