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UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay
Barence writes "Five of Britain's biggest ISPs have been ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay. Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media have been told to block access to the site. Britain's biggest ISP, BT, has been given a few further weeks to 'consider its position.' Music lobby group, the BPI, welcomed the move, saying music creators 'deserve to be paid for their work just like everyone else' and calling for those who use The Pirate Bay to illegally download content to 'explore the many digital music services operating ethically and legally in the UK.'"
It takes time for bribes to trickle down from polliticians to judges.
Do the BPI members use the same Hollywood accounting methodology to pay their contracted artists, like charging "breakage" against digital music download sales? If so then the BPI concern over the artists getting paid is hypocritically laughable.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
The ISPs will very likely take the least-cost, least-effective method available to them under the terms of the court order so as to adhere to it with a minimum of disruption to their profits and their users.
Music lobby group, the BPI, welcomed the move, saying music creators 'deserve to be paid for their work just like everyone else'
I agree. It's just unfortunate that when you buy mainstream music only a very tiny percentage goes to the music creators. Most of it goes to record label fat cats and towards lobbying for shit like this ban.
That's piracy sorted, what's next?
"The rest of the internet."
Note the lack of sarcasm.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Every single artist on the promo bay should sue the monopoly for anti competitive business practices.
No. If big music is allowed to censor information just by flexing it's muscles, then this is a problem, no matter how ineffective the means of censorship.
Why do they think implementing mass censorship on a national scale will affect piracy?
The dumb starts on a much higher strata than the workings of DNS.
Phillip.
Property for sale in Nice, France
They think they are punishing TPB by blocking it, and that other torrent sites will be afraid because of the example they make of TPB. It is the sort of thinking that comes from politicians who grew up in a pre-Internet age.
Palm trees and 8
capitalism
Music lobby group, the BPI, welcomed the move, saying music creators 'deserve to be paid for their work just like everyone else'
"Just like everyone else" means "once".
Indeed. We need a name for the situation in which a company does something beneficial not for any altruistic or ethical reasons, but simply because the most profitable path happens to be aligned with the interests of the users.
Once upon a time, that was called "doing business".
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
It will now be easier to justify/implement blocking other unapproved sites.
The main problem with doing this for piracy is that so many people do it. They are fighting a large proportion of all people.
Censorship should be limited to only the most egregious things, if that, or it WILL be expanded.
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You don't have to run a Tor relay/exit. In fact, it's off by default.
They already had it.. It was supposed to be limited to the most egregious things, it was expanded, and it WILL be expanded.
At least you don't live in the US...
We've done the DNS block thing in Belgium, which makes sense because it's a prefect example of the "belgian solution" which is where you basically do not modify the status quo in any meaningful way and everyone loses a little but can spin it as a win. In this case :
- Government doesn't really block anything, but can claim to be making an effort.
- Copyright organizations don't curb piracy, but get to claim they've blocked a major site.
- ISP's have to waste time on BS DNS blocking, but can claim to be law-abiding good citizens.
- Customers have to use workarounds, but can feel like they're outsmarting "the man."
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
The slippery slope is real.
Keeping a child rapist from moving next to a school to victimize the children seems like both a noble goal and easy to implement and with only good consequences. (*)
Only now you've empowered government to decide where you can live. Where you live is a revokable privilege, not a right.
That will only be used against those monsters, right? right? Good people have NOTHING to worry about.
WRONG.
Las Vegas bans even misdemeanor drug offenders from even entering a major portion of the city.
Google "order out corridor". OOPS!
Precedents are a dangerous thing.
Creating infrastructure is a dangerous thing too.
Onstar can be used by the government to listen to your conversations and even to disable your car, by making it think it is stolen - it will refuse to start.
(*) Life without parole for the real monsters would eliminate the need for this stuff AND protect the children!
Or a 38 cent bullet.
But they don't want to protect the children, they want to control society with an iron fist. Letting molestors out of prison makes people fearful and then they pass these laws, and get precedents, and eventually you have weed heads being banned from huge parts of the city (ironically the Las Vegas order out corridor is so big - drug offenders are more restricted than molestors! Then again, molestation makes the politicans stronger, and drugs reduce their power.)
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!