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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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Not really, since the same google search that returned TPB results is also going to return links to a dozen other torrent sites that aren't being blocked. I don't see how that will have any effect on casual users, or even piracy in general.
Sure, it sucks for TPB, but so what. There were other "well known" sites before TPB existed, and after TPB is gone there will be new ones that take over. Singling one of them out and blocking it is just a game of whack-a-mole. The government can play that game forever, but there's always going to be another mole.