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Records Labels Prepare Massive 'Pirate Site' Domain Blocking Blitz

An anonymous reader writes "In their ongoing battle against websites said to infringe music copyrights, record labels have initiated a fresh wave of actions aimed at forcing UK ISPs to carry out domain blocking. This third wave is set to be the biggest so far, affecting as many as 25 domains and including some of the world's largest torrent sites and file-hosting search engines. Furthermore, the BPI – the entity coordinating the action – will ask courts to block U.S.-based music streaming operation, Grooveshark."

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  1. What a coincidence! by decipher_saint · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wallet is going on a record label blocking blitz

    Life sure is funny sometimes.

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    crazy dynamite monkey
  2. Re:Good luck with that by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Funny

    As do I - I'd tell you where I keep that list (and a backup copy of it), but I don't feel like summoning APK.

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    Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
  3. Re:Good luck with that by Falkentyne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Full disclosure, I'm listening to Taylor Swift right now. That's right, I just called myself dumb and am admitting to listening to "Trouble" by Taylor Swift.

    Please mod parent down and parent's parents should be modded down too for allowing this to happen.

  4. Do people still pirate music? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I stopped pirating music years ago. I use rdio now... $10/month for (almost) all the music I want.

    I figured pirating music would have more-or-less disappeared by now.

  5. Re:Good luck with that by martinX · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Swedish VPN once bit my sister ...

        No realli! She was Karving her initials on the Swedish VPN
        with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
        her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Stockholm dentist and
        star of many Swedish møvies: "The Høt Hands of a Stockholm
        Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
        Nordfink".

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    When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."