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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.'"
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-unblock-the-pirate-bay-111004/
nuff said?
who where what when now?
Because, you know, TPB is the only torrent site on the Interwebs. People won't use other sites or find a work-around. Nope. Not at all.
That's piracy sorted, what's next?
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.
"explore the many digital music services operating ethically and legally in the UK.'"
Yes, and you "can have any color of model T, as long as its black." Please. The popularity of the pirate bay suggests that the 'many digital music services' are woefully lacking in something the pirate bay provides; And study after study have shown that it's not the price that's driving people to those sites, but the ease of use and lack of DRM. People are, in fact, willing to pay to be entertained... they just don't believe that the pricing model accurately reflects the entertainment value of the product -- and when every song is priced the same at the various digitla music stores, that's pretty good evidence they're right; Nobody would say that Manos, Hands of Fate is of equal value to say, The Dark Knight. Well, nobody except the entertainment industry...
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
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.
Everything Everywhere changes name to Most Things Almost Everywhere
Every single artist on the promo bay should sue the monopoly for anti competitive business practices.
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
As a British citizen I am getting more and more sick of the incompetent morons who govern this country.
Maybe instead of takings bribes from the likes of Rupert Murdoch, outmoded business like the recording industry and the fundamentally failed banking sector they could do some of the following:
- Financial transaction taxes. Stop the crazy gambling in the financial sector
- How about cutting fuel taxes (paid for by a 1% increase in corporation tax.) Everyone needs stuff moved around so making it cheaper can only be a good thing.
- Invest in actual industry rather than bailing out the failed financial sector. You've spent hundreds of billions on this and have nothing to show for it.
- Build fucking nuclear power stations. Solar, wind, wave, etc are completely impractical so stop wasting money on them
- Stop wasting money on wars
- Open up the government and stop fucking with your people
I'm not even sure who is worth voting for anymore. The Conservatives are as corrupt and sleazy as they were under Thatcher, Labour offer nothing more than "we wouldn't do what the Conservatives are doing but we won't bother to offer any ideas of our own" and the Liberal Democrats have sold themselves out to the Conservatives. Not one of these parties is willing to take any risks or do anything that requires telling the banking sector "NO!" The political class in the UK is completely rotten.
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.
expandfairuse.org
I've taken to hanging around HMV and tutting disapprovingly when I see anyone take a CD to the check-out. Don't they realise that money is going to fund a terrorist organization that seeks to censor the proletariat?
You don't have to run a Tor relay/exit. In fact, it's off by default.
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!