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UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-not-surf-list dept.

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.'"

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  1. how to unblock by Dave+Whiteside · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-unblock-the-pirate-bay-111004/
    nuff said?

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    1. Re:how to unblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      If other European countries are anything to go on, it'll just be a DNS level "block". Which means I'm laughing, as I use Virgin Media but already use someone else's DNS resolvers.

    2. Re:how to unblock by Spad · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. This will work well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Well by Spad · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's piracy sorted, what's next?

    1. Re:Well by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's piracy sorted, what's next?

      "The rest of the internet."

      Note the lack of sarcasm.

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  4. Lies. by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "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...

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  5. Agreed by alanthenerd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. UK government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  7. I propose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    capitalism

  8. Once upon a time... by zooblethorpe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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".

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  9. Re:Time for war by dadioflex · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?