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British Pirate Party Asked To Pull Pirate Bay Proxy

Posted by Soulskill on from the stop-or-i'll-say-stop-again dept.

judgecorp writes "The British Pirate Party has been asked by the music business organisation BPI to pull the plug on the Pirate Bay proxy it has been running. The Pirate Party provides a way round the court-ordered ban on ISPs providing connections to the file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay. So far the Pirate Party says the proxy is a 'legitimate route' to the site, but the BPI says the Pirate Bay is 'not above the law.'"

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  1. clearly they're not above the law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    only the bpi and the riaa are

  2. Response on Behalf of UK Pirate Party: by CanHasDIY · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Dear BPI:

    We refer you to the response given in Arkell v. Pressdram.

    Good day.

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    1. Re:Response on Behalf of UK Pirate Party: by fsterman · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Shortcut,

      Arkell's lawyers wrote a letter which concluded: "His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply." The magazine's response was, in full: "We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off."

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  3. Re:Just wait by ThatsMyNick · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have found plenty of legitimate torrents on TPB. A fellow musician even uses it to distribute his work (his model is to depend on donations and live performances). I am not sure why you find it different from Megaupload. Both are used to mass distribute files (well, the most common use atleast)

  4. Pointless by magic+maverick+ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I visited Belgium recently. I wanted to go to the Pirate Bay, but it was blocked. I did a quick search for Pirate Bay mirrors and came up with a lot of hits. Including a script that is specifically for mirroring the site http://unblockedpiratebay.com/external/ which you can include on your own website.

    So, basically, the whole thing is pointless. Block one site, and mirrors will spring up. (Same as what happened with Wikileaks.)

    PS https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=pirate+bay+mirror.

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