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Finnish ISP Forced To Block the Pirate Bay
Apotekaren writes "The Finnish ISP Elisa has been forced to block several domains leading to the infamous torrent-tracker site The Pirate Bay following a court case initiated by IFPI Finland... The Helsinki District Court ruled in favor of IFPI Finland in October, but the ISP resisted implementing the block until today because of the terms of the block not being specific enough. The ISP is calling the block 'temporary' and is appealing the court decision."
Analysis from Torrent Freak shows that the block is probably easily circumvented.
DRM doesn't stop casual people from pirating when they can go to thepiratebay (or wherever) and get the movie pre-cracked. The guys who get the original movie have to crack it, but once done, no one else has to care. Blocking the IP addresses are slightly more effective in that way.
No, they're a torrent tracker. I'm sure you could compile a list of individual users and bother them, though.
I doubt that blocking EFF was 'collateral' damage. Pretty sure sure it was intentional. EFF is an enemy of the (corporate) state.
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Thank you! Ditto. I'm still trying to get legally purchased movies to run on my legally purchased equipment.
As the entertainment industry tries to completely control every aspect of their product and how consumers can use them, more and more star systems will slip through their grasp.
I'm curious about the legality of blocking another EU site, it is contrary to the single market.
Right, and women are to blame for being raped, because they dressed provocatively, right?
Whatever pirate bay did or didn't do is irrelevant. SOPA rapes the internet.
But did you use a different credit card as well? A user account for Amazon can easily be filled with fake info, but credit card info is harder to make up, so I wouldn't be surprised if the watermarking was done by credit card or something.