04-30-2012, 11:02 AM | #1 | |
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High Court orders British ISPs to block "The Pirate Bay"
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04-30-2012, 11:18 AM | #2 |
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Waste of time, money and effort that would have been better spent setting up legal alternatives.
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I don't think blockages of this type are really aimed at what one might call "serious" pirates; they will always have the tools and the know-how to circumvent such blocks. They are, however, effective against the casual or inadvertent pirate, who simply comes across the link to TPB in the results from a Google search.
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04-30-2012, 11:21 AM | #4 |
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They're fighting a losing battle. Won't make any difference at all.
Anyone who accesses TPB will use other sites or a workaround to access TPB anyway (directly or indirectly). |
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All the governments are doing is making it more fun for the pirates. Showing how inept they are...
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And as usual, they seem to be completely ignoring the impact it will have on people who use them to distribute their own or other types of legal content. |
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04-30-2012, 11:39 AM | #7 | |
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Its aimed at TPB's business model:
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The idea is that people won't advertise on the site if the average user can't get easy access to the site. Dunno if it will work. |
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Can you give us a link to an example of legal content on TPB? |
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What a bunch of crazy loonies!
"That site has bad knowledge, you can't have any" I suppose removing access is easier than creating an equitable system where all can access, but think of the children! |
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Ubuntu has its own trackers and links, and most of the other big-name distros probably do as well. |
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Torrents aren't being blocked, just a site that indexes them. You'll still be able to go to your favourite distribution site and download the .torrent file for the linux version you want and download fine.
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Absolutely - BitTorrent technology is extremely useful. It's the use that the owners of this particular site have put it to that's illegal, not the underlying technology.
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Interesting to see that BT "requested 'a few more weeks' to consider their position on blocking the site." I wonder what their thinking is behind that request?
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