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City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns
Mr_Silver writes TorrentFreak is reporting that the City of London Police (a private police force in government-backed livery with an authority that does not go beyond the corporate-controlled City of London area — so not to be confused with the Metropolitan Police) has seized control of a number of domains including Immunicity, a general proxy server that was set up as a censorship circumvention tool. This appears to be their next step after placing banner adverts on websites.
Do they have a Corporate Congress yet?
Do any natural persons own any property in the City anymore?
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There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want them for my own
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Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is
My own bloody private police force!
Of what Londinium has become.
The police, who wants to fight piracy which is claimed to be happening by the corporations, go bust servers with neither warrants nor court orders. What exactly are making these claims legit enough to skip due process? Or is due process some sort of privilege that we shouldn't expect them in the first place?
I know it's bad form to provide accurate information on Slashdot but the City of London police are not private at all. Indeed the Wikipedia page linked to in the summary states that it's a govt entity on the very first page.
I apologise in advance for being accurate.
The City of London Police Force is not a private police force, its a public body that receives government funding and is the same as any other police force in the UK, bar the fact that it doesn't have an elected police commissioner. It answers to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary just like any other police force. The reason its separate from the Metropolitan Police Force is nothing more than a historical curiosity rather than anything to create conspiracy theories about.
There does seem to be an attempt here on Slashdot, in this story and past stories, to cast the City of London Police in a false light.
Regarding the authority "issue" - the City of London Police seizing a domain name is no different to the Metropolitan Police seizing it, the jurisdictional "issues" are the same. The reason the City of London Police are doing this a lot is because they are highly specialised in economic crime detection, investigation and enforcement, so combating criminal level copyright infringement is in fact one of their specialities.
The City of London is a borough of greater London. It is an ordinary government district and the police force for the City of London is a normal, governmental police force. What a fucking pile of hogwash this summary is.
Instead of "corporate cops" they are STORM TROOPERS to ensure that everyone's privacy will no longer be hidden away from the corporate prying eyes
Those proxy servers are there to help people from authoritarian countries in circumventing censorship - and the action of the STORM TROOPERS means the civil liberties of those people be damned !
CoLP, while not actually private, is the closest you can get to a law system controlled solely by it's corporate backers. Since there are no actual people in the city, just corporations and commuters, there is no such thing as public scrutiny or pursuit of the public interest, their agenda is written solely by private interests. Coupled with private prosecution, it rounds up to a nice libertarian-fascist justice system.
You still believe that due process is still practised in England or America or France ??
Welcome to the REAL WORLD !!
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
The owner of Immuncity was arrested yesterday as well.
City of London Police (a private police force in government-backed livery with an authority that does not go beyond the corporate-controlled City of London area — so not to be confused with the Metropolitan Police)
The poster didn't read the Wiki on the City of London Police;
The City of London Police is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the City of London, including the Middle and Inner Temples.
The police authority is the Common Council of the City,
The Common Council of the City is an elected body. The City of London police is also publicly funded.
What may confuse you Americans is that most British cities have "corporation" in their official name. For example, I live near "The Corporation of the District of Sannich".
The City of London Police is overseen by an elected body and funded through taxes. It is not a private police force. I think that was just a transparent attempt to sensationalize a news story.
This City of London?
Surely there must be a precedent to request ICANN suspend the City of London Polices domain names for the following reasons (Among others).
Masquerading as a legal authority.
submitting false take-down requests.
Blackmail and Extortion.
Hacking and social engineering.
Making threats to other hosting companies.
Their own website allows them to perpetuate the myth about what they are, and someone needs to get it suspended post-haste, to prevent any future victims of their social engineering tactics.
I make no applogies for corruption or incompetence in CoLP (if any).
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You actually found a place where people hate you and are trying to change how people see you.
Look at all those mentions to Wikipedia. Classic disinfo posting methods.
Good job, City of London.
What people in the US would know as Corporations are Limited Companies here.
By all means, revolt. Come on, take up arms. See how long you last, I'll give you about a couple of seconds. But it won't come to that because way before you're in any position to be any kind of threat, you'll be arrested in the middle of the night. They will break you. They will threaten you and your family. You will break, have no delusions about it. They know how powerful they are, and how much more powerful are the people they work for, and how powerless YOU are. You are nothing. They can kill you with no consequences but it won't come to that, because you will break. They have done it already many, many times to many, many people. You're nothing special. There's nothing you, or anyone, can do. It's over. Accept it.
No they are employees of the City of London Corporation which is not in any sense a government entity nothing to do with the government of the UK.
Control of the city of london (the inner old city) is held by some of the corporations with offices there.
When the police force of that 'city' starts giving itself wider jurisdiction over the UK and world, at that point it becomes painfully clear that we need to re-examine this exemption from UK Parliamentary supremacy. We can't have this little 'exception' to UK rule, order the UK and the World around.
They're not subject to democratic limits, and don't answer to the wider democracy, so their special status needs to be removed.
Here are two facets that I have tons of experience with that will make this test inaccurate unless both are handled somehow. 1. Our physical thinking on a physical level may consist in more than what occurs on the cranial level. The connections in our arms, down our spine, and across our body may play key roles, and the brain may not consistently always run the same, it may go through cycles. By focusing on the brain too much instead of the entire body and diet, incorrect results are likely. 2. In my experience when I use various supplemental methods, I can increase my brain power by orders of magnitude for varying periods of time. A normal scan would likley not pick these up if I just turn them off during the scan resulting in false readings. I believe anyone is capable of this, but most people do not do this (or know how). As a summary a test like this may mis-gauge one's cranial or intelligence capacity by missing out on some key factors. I can list more, but I have other pressing matters to attend to at present.
And an error in some of slashdots code can push this comment from one article to another. rofl! Sorry bout that, someone check for errors serverside!
City of London is not part of the UK, it has its own electoral system and its own government. Wrong! That police force answers to the City of London Corporation. No it doesn't! That police force is threatening the sovereignty of the UK and wider world. It isn't in anyway! So we need to take back the City of London from the corporate entity that controls it, and bring that police force back within the wider laws of the UK. You are a moron
Dum spiro spero
if that is really the case, the logical conclusion is to confiscate all the citizen's computers.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Total crap
Dum spiro spero
I am afraid shouting "Wrong!" and calling parent poster a "moron" do nothing to refute his claims. It would be interesting to have an actual dispassionate discussion of the matter, because for example the Wikipedia article does very little to illuminate it, nor is the official website very illuminating. From what little I can determine, the parent poster APPEARS to accurately describe the basics.
I'm at work (I work in UK local government) and tried to read the boing boing article for a bit of background. Which brought up this message
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Access Denied
You have attempted to access the following web page :
http://boingboing.net/2013/07/28/defeat-uks-great-firewall-of.html
Access has been blocked because:
Tru-View has categorised this page as Proxy Avoidance.
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Maybe talking about proxy avoidance counts as proxy avoidance? And I've checked and http://boingboing.net/ is not itself blocked.
According to Wikipedia, the City of London has a resident population of about 7000 and a commuting.working population of about 300,000. There are certainly many "actual people in the city". Or do you believe Wikipedia is wrong on this score?
Both residents and representatives of the businesses vote in the elections. It is true that the former are outnumbered by the latter.
Having fun killing hope?
Cory Doctorow may yet be right.
That's quite interesting. In North America, the "in thing" is for cities to expand their borders as far as possible, amalgamating the suburbs and smaller towns into one giant mega city with a single mayor, and all services overseen by a single municipal government. This allows the city to collect more tax dollars, and get better deals on buying things because they are buying in larger quantities.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
"The National Arbitration Forum has just handed down its decision in respect to the three domain names locked down at Public Domain Registry in response to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit takedown requests. The decision is in favour of easyDNS and orders the three names to be transferred to us. - See more at: http://blog.easydns.org/2014/0...
Nah, you can revolt and be "successful" in the sense of overturning the government, but as history has proven again and again the result is almost always not what you intended.
It's better to found and support large lobby groups, they might achieve something.
stop your technical parsing: RELATIVE to the urbanized area and how many people work there, the number of actual residents is miniscule...
(dog damn it! is EVERYONE's spel czech a piece of shit ? miniscule is too a word, stupid spellbot... really, i find nearly all spel czechs suck big time, you get beyond two syllable words, and there is a good chance it will be flagged improperly... computer overlords indeed, can't even use a dictionary right...)
Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?
Labour (left wing) MP
You're kidding right!? Labour are the width of one eyelash to the left of conservatives nowadays.
...miniscule is too a word, stupid spellbot...
'minuscule', (with a 'u'), is the original spelling, and is still preferred: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/...
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
when I use various supplemental methods,
It appears that you've posted from either Colorado or Washington State.
It is blocked in ENTIRE england! Not just London!
Proxies evade attempts to restrict Internet content by geographic location. I had to use one on our big trip to Europe this spring, when I needed to stream a few missed network TV episodes from their conventional US sites. Not that I particularly wanted to watch TV on vacation, but these episodes would have "expired" and been removed by the time we got back. But not only is there a stupid nonsensical time restriction on accessing TV content, but a stupid nonsensical restriction against accessing them outside the US. This is what I evaded by using a proxy.
So why is Airstrip One joining the War On Proxies? Because the BBC offers a georestricted app called iPlayer to its TV customers, and they don't want people from being able to access their content from outside the country any more than Hollywood does.
That's been going on for a long time. Most of the districts within London are former towns. Give it another century and it'll probably have assimilated all the way down to Dartford.
Quite a few people won't understand what the City of London is about, since it comprises the financial district of the U.K., and goes back before the Norman Conquest (1066, which is probably why they were graned special rights above all others). Although this is supposition on my part (and others) it is thought to go back to the time of the Roman Empire, when they occupied ares of the British Isles, and established various short-term corporations to undertake various infrastructure building missions.
Now the City of London is owned by the City of London Corporation, which not only is the oldest but continuous existing corporation in the Western Hemisphere, if not the planet. They control the City of London Police, and the Queen, prior to entering that district, must first have a royal audience with the Lord High Mayor of London (as opposed to the other mayor, the mayor of the entire city of London) --- this has long been traditional and sacrosanct.
The City of London Corporation also has the oldest and continuous existing financial investment fund (forgot their name for it, sorry), and several bits of circumstantial evidence only, suggests they invested in some backward street and real estate in New Amsterdam, later to be known as Wall Street of New York City.
Now many may wonder about the relationship between the British royals and the City of London Corporation? Sometime around the early 1700s, the CoLC bought off the royal family by offering them, in perpetuity, leases on the choicest real estate throughout London, and outlying areas, based upon the cheapest discount RE rates of that day --- in other words, the CoLC leased out those lands to the royals, for a few shillings, a rate never to change, while the royals in turn would lease and rent out those lands and abodes for massive amounts over the centuries, especially in modern times.
Of course, this perpetuity thing was changed some years back, so now (I believe) it is only for 2,000 more years!
If you believe this to be farfetched, simply read a UK travel book or brochure some time, which is where I originally learned of this.
Oh, yes, shortly after this lease deal was sealed between the royals the CoLC, the Bank of England was established. (Think that may have been part of the deal?)
Of course the City of London is part of the UK. It has elections to its council as do all town councils. It has its own police force, as do many English counties.
The City of London is not London. It's roughly equivalent to the old walled medieval City and is now mainly a financial district 'The Square Mile'.
I for one would like to congratulate the City of London Police.
Yes, some may argue that there are still some little rascals roaming free out there, such as rapists, murderers, drug dealers, etc.
But I'm sure the majority will join me in congratulating the taxpayer funded force for protecting us against truly despicable criminals, namely scumbags that #you might want to cover your children ears# #no really, what follows is genuinely disturbing beyond belief# facilitate the download of copyrighted material #GASP, well I did warn you#.
I'm sure the judge will lock this guy for life, so that the honest public can finally roams the streets at night safely. If no space is available, can I recommend to follow the usual strategy, namely move a psychopath to an open prison or release him altogether.
Yeah, but from my understanding they have their own mayor and everything, are are a completely separate municipality from other parts of London. Tons of people work there but very few of those people actually get a vote as to what happens where they spend 1/3rd of their lives. This makes it quite odd.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
The City of London (one square mile in size remember) has 8,000 "actual people" residents:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk...
Numbers are rising each year, but the total did take a bit of a knock when the City was "redesigned" by that nice Mr. Hitler (there, Godwin's Law)...
Bullshit.