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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. Re:Testing if the ISP is banning TPB by CriticalAnalysis · · Score: 0, Troll
    I wouldn't really blame MS for it. They have always semi-acknowledged piracy for home users, and haven't pursued after those (like things should be). I would rather take a look at Google, who is supporting CISPA:

    Google has admitted that it is lobbying on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)

    And who has a long history of censoring results from their search engine if they happen to contain unlicensed copyrighted content. They could fight it, like they did fight in China after demands to that government, but they decide not to. Not in Google, not in YouTube, nowhere. And then they support CISPA.