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Belgium Anti-Piracy Group Expands Attack On Access To the Pirate Bay
bs0d3 writes "The Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF), has been threatening ISPs into expanding their blockade of thepiratebay. Recently they have been sending threatening letters to various other ISPs which were not involved with the original judgment to block thepiratebay. The letter 'kindly requests' that all ISPs voluntarily block thepiratebay, or BAF will bring legal action against them. The ISP BASE has succumbed to these legal threats. Also, many of the same Belgian ISPs have taken it one step further and also blocked the DNS for depiraatbaai.be. depiraatbaai.be was setup by thepiratebay as an alternative domain which directs users to the piratebay's servers to circumvent DNS censorship. For those who can't wait for The Pirate Bay to set up new alternative domains, a full working mirror of the site still exists at malaysiabay.org, which was originally set up to circumvent the piratebay block in Malaysia."
Because a great many of Slashdot's readers are a bunch of whiny, spoiled children. They don't understand that musicians and other performing artists have a right to be paid for their work. I suspect that they might understand this better if they themselves were working. They wouldn't want to have the fruits of their labor stolen from them either.
I don't agree with censorship of the 'net in any of the several ways it is happening these days (DNS redirects, for example) and the various forms of DRM that have been placed on content are often a sufficient PITA to dissuade me from purchasing the content in the first place, but I can see the content creator's side of it. If there is no financial reward or incentive, no one will invest the time or money to create content.
I'm not a person who is being directly harmed by filesharing, I don't create content for my living, but I do work, and I wouldn't want to do it for free.