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."

Comments

Good luck with that

[Hatta]

Domain blocking has been so successful already. No one will figure out how to use alternative DNS servers, or simply type in the IP address manually.

Re:Good luck with that

[Joce640k]

Domain blocking has been so successful already. No one will figure out how to use alternative DNS servers, or simply type in the IP address manually.

Doesn't matter, it's all about training governments to bend over whenever they say so. They'll be back again soon, with bigger demands.

PS: Thanks, RIAA, for letting me know about Grooveshark...

Re:Good luck with that

[Penguinisto]

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.

Re:Good luck with that

[Falkentyne]

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.

What a coincidence!

[decipher_saint]

My wallet is going on a record label blocking blitz

Life sure is funny sometimes.

Another ridiculous situation

[Okian Warrior]

This is yet another ridiculous situation, stupid enough that it makes me wonder why such situations exist.

If a website is illegal (for any definition of illegal, including terrorism, pornography, and IP violations), then it should be judged illegal by a court in country with reference to the specific law that the site violates. That country can then mandate that ISPs in that country block that specific website, the government can ask the government of the registrar or hosting company to take action, the government can identify people who access the site and charge them with a crime.

Illegal is illegal, but this thing about "anyone can take action if they think something is illegal" is ludicrous. Letting business advocacy groups, unelected government bureaucrats, and random government departments to suddenly state "we're the governing authority, this is illegal, we're pulling your plug" is complete bullshit. Government departments can certainly make such pronouncements, but should be required to act only with court approval. For instance, if the State Department wants Defense Distributed to take their plans offline, it should get a court order.

The courts exist to protect our rights. Taking action without judicial process is an end-run around those rights, and shouldn't be allowed.

Run your own DNS server

[houghi]

Alternate DNS servers? I live in Belgium where they block (among others) TPB, so I just run my own.
OK, I am able to configure my own named server. What is needed for others is an idiot proof DNS server that people can run on their local machine (so no remote connections allowed).

And I talk about so easy, your grandma can install it and it runs by just double clicking. Something that is made for just local usage with as little configuration as possible. No need to be able to make any local domains. Just something so you do not need an external DNS server.

Perhaps that already exists and it is just not commonly known.