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British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic

Posted by timothy on from the that-which-is-forbidden dept.

New submitter sleiper writes "Today sees UK ISPs begin to block access for their subscribers to the Pirate Bay URL. Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and O2 have already blocked access and the UK's biggest provider, BT, are currently reviewing their legal position. This access ban however has seen The Pirate Bay's traffic spike to 12 million more page views than their previous daily record. It seems obvious that a message is being sent, that this type of censorship is not the way forward. The Pirate Bay keeps on sailing.""

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  1. Testing if the ISP is banning TPB by Dark$ide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suspect most of the traffic is folks testing whether their ISP is imposing the censorship and if it is doing that testing whether proxies and/or VPN and/or OpenDNS/GoogleDNS or other methods circumvents that censorship.

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  2. Metaphor doesn't work! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Pirate Bay keeps on sailing.

    I get what you're going at and all, but this metaphor doesn't work. A bay can't sail. If you said something like "The pirate ship sails on!" we would still get the reference to the logo.

  3. The slippery slope by Freaky+Spook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't wait till the next step, blocking access to websites that provide instructions on how to access the pirate bay. Then they have an excuse to censor anything they like.

    I really don't support censorship, but I'm afraid it has to get much worse, before it wakes people up to what is going on.

    1. Re:The slippery slope by jamstar7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Except the lawyers refuse to acknowledge it isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement. If you get something and make copies to give away or use as backups, you haven't stolen anything, you've infringed on a copyright or trademark. The original owner still has possession of their intellectual 'property'. Yet the lawyers know the difference, and keep misusing the word 'steal' in order to pump up the 'severeity' of the 'crime'.

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  4. Re:hmm... by InsaneMosquito · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really? What if my representatives are behaving exactly like I want them to behave? That gets me 3 out of 535 votes in the House and Senate. Why am I responsible for the other 532 representatives that I can't influence one way or the other with my single vote?

  5. Re:hmm... by BootysnapChristAlive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (2) For those who did vote for a president who makes/made terrible decisions, they couldn't have possibly known all the actions the future president was going to take just from his campaign.

    It should be widely known by now that the two main parties are pure garbage. There is no excuse for continuing to vote for them.

  6. Re:hmm... by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go FUCK yourself, you anti-american scum! I'm so sick of people who don't like what our government is doing, taking it out on the American people. You're just a retarded, uneducated loser!

    Maybe if we did something about our retarded, uneducated government, we wouldn't get flamed for it?

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  7. Re:hmm... by Sperbels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The US is very proud of being a democracy, the people are ultimately responsible for their leaders actions

    No we're not. It's the leaders who are responsible for their own actions. And they are willing participants in a conspiracy to keep on screwing us over by concealing their own actions and making us believe their way is the only way. This is not a democracy. I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't a democracy.

  8. Re:hmm... by Githaron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If enough us "waste" our vote, there will be a third-party candidate.