BT Starts Blocking the Pirate Bay

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:30PM from the no-free-movies-for-you dept.

judgecorp writes "The UK's largest ISP, BT, has obeyed a court order to block The Pirate Bay, following similar moves by five other service providers, after complaints by music trade body BPI. The Pirate Bay says it can continue regardless through workarounds. From the article: 'BT has started blocking access to The Pirate Bay, becoming the sixth major ISP to prevent access to the file-sharing service. It follows blocks enforced by Orange, Virgin, Sky, TalkTalk and O2, after they all obeyed a court order made in April. BT, which has been in ongoing discussions with trade body the BPI over how it would carry out a block, had not been hit with such an order until this week.'"

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Fucking morons. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-20 16:33 · Score: 0, Troll

People will get around the blocks, people will pirate shit, people won't care.
Stupid ISPs.
1. Re:Fucking morons. by million_monkeys · 2012-06-20 19:09 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  They've been ordered to block it by the courts.
  I love that your entire post is nothing more than a restatement of a fact presented in the 1st line of the summary... and it got modded +5 informative. Nothing against you, I just think some mods have a pretty low standard of what's informative. I wonder if my "You are currently reading slashdot." post will get modded informative.