Finnish ISP Forced To Block the Pirate Bay

Posted by Unknown on Monday January 9, 2012 @03:06AM from the if-you-can't-beat-them-ban-them dept.

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.

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Re:Not only domains by alphatel · 2012-01-09 03:26 · Score: 1, Redundant

Blocking the IP addresses are slightly more effective in that way.
It's still completely ineffective because IP addresses change, proxies like thepiratebay.ee will get you there as well, and private or tor DNS will always get you where you want to go.

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So does this mean... by mknewman · 2012-01-09 04:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

That they are Finnished?