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UK Court Orders Block of Three Torrent Sites
angry tapir writes "A court in the U.K. has ordered key Internet service providers in the country to block three torrent sites on a complaint from music labels including EMI Records and Sony Music. The High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, ordered six ISPs including Virgin Media, British Telecommunications and British Sky Broadcasting to block H33t, Kickass Torrents and Fenopy."
My first response is "Must check out those sites".
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
What will that accomplish?
Invest in VPN service providers.
My first response is "Must check out those sites".
If you're in the UK, you may wish to use a VPN or suchlike. Until they're made illegal outside "reputable corporations".
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
That would be my first thought, except i'm still doing fine with piratebay. Y'know, the one they blocked ages ago which definitely doesn't have numerous easy to find proxies that make such rulings pointless
My first response is "Certainly that will work."
Ok, so who wants to print the "This is a bit, this is a byte" slides, and send them to the judge, so he can find the error of his ways?
I am John Hurt.
My first response is "Must check out those sites".
If you're in the UK, you may wish to use a VPN or suchlike. Until they're made illegal outside "reputable corporations".
There's no need to use a VPN. The sites will simply pop up under various URL/domains. Some of them already have.
My response is to add them to my foxy proxy list so i get to them via tor.
firefox+foxyproxy+tor > silly court order
There's no need to use a VPN. The sites will simply pop up under various URL/domains. Some of them already have.
Indeed, the first thing I thought when this came up was: Here we go, the greatest whack-a-mole game in history is about to begin...
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
My guess is, if you haven't heard of them, it's probably because you don't do much torrenting. That was my first response, too.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If you're using a good torrent search engine it'll give you a whole list of sites that have the exact same content. I fail to see how this achieves anything
This game of blocking the sites cannot be won. Let’s say it takes, at best, one month from BPI or copyright holder to figure out that one site is infringing the copyright, file a suite and have a verdict against the infringing site. That process takes time and money. On the other hand, duplicating the site’s content on some other IP and the alternative name can happen overnight and is virtually free. So there will always be sites providing free access to any works.
What is more concerning here is that none of the sites blocked hosted the copyrighted works. This is something that only few really consider as a serious shift in the court system. None of the sites blocked for copyright infringement host copyrighted works! What will be the next step? Someone will create a site that will list all the blocked sites along with the new mirrored sites that can be accessed within the UK. Should this new site be blocked? Based on what? It doesn’t host any copyrighted works, nor provides an index to the copyrighted works. Let’s say that the UK block-thirsty judges will issue a new verdict to block the sites that list mirrors. What next? Someone will write a browser plugin that will automatically redirect to the current working mirror of the blocked sites and users will continue to use the sites without even noticing any blocking and without using any VPN. Should browser plugins be blocked or any sites that host browser plugins? Someone will say that it will be good enough if less people are aware of the options. But how did we get to the point that more users are aware of thepiratebay than about the legal ways of obtaining the same material? The reason is that thepiratebay does better consolidating all the media (even that that cannot be purchased anywhere) in one spot at an attractive price point. Offer something better and people will pick the alternative. Otherwise, blocking will not solve any problem that BPI thinks exists.
There's no such thing as "illegal download"
We already did this one four days ago:
High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block More Torrent Sites.
yeah good point, but at least we have the iinet case as a precedent for the type of garbage in TFA
Ok, so who wants to print the "This is a bit, this is a byte" slides, and send them to the judge, so he can find the error of his ways?
Are you quoting this?
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Only if you include some par2 files...
I wonder if these ISPs only removed the DNS entry. I wonder if one could just enter in the IP address directly or use OpenDNS.