Judge doesn't rule UK ISPs now required to block Piratebay

[llamaprotector]

Reported today, see link.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/i ... uling.html

[disciple]

>>Judge rules all UK ISPs now required to block Piratebay

That's not what the article says.

[RedOktober]

Good job there aren't any other torrent sites to worry about.

[techno12]

Pointless as people in the know can use an anonymiser like HideMyAss...

[Portland]

Conclusion

For the reasons set out above, I conclude that both users and the operators of TPB infringe the copyrights of the Claimants (and those they represent) in the UK.



Anonymiser much? I don't robberjize stuff, but to think that TPB is te only source of torrent seeds is laughable. Are the record companies going to try to kill IRC, usenet and any site with the word torrent, seed, leech or the like too?

<edit. just seen techno's post - lol>

[RedOktober]

First all torrent sites, then all porn sites.

Simples.

[Istar]

Are the record companies going to try to kill IRC, usenet and any site with the word torrent, seed, leech or the like too?

Now you are beginning to understand, Grasshopper.

[llamaprotector]

Well I can't get the whole story in the title!

Well TPB is the best IMO (and why not seeing as one of the founders was from TRSI crew back in the Amiga days )

But we lost 3 of the larger file sharing sites already so TPB too would be annoying. And it just opens the door to censoring the net.....which the FBI conveniently do for all of us a la megaupload.

VPN tunnelling FTW of course

Ah well when huge ISPs start going under you know who to blame.....yes those greedy media dinosaurs peddling their talentless music ad infinitum eh

[Iain]

Ixquick seach engine.
It has a 'view this site through our proxy' link for each result. TPB's search doesn't work through the proxy, but TPB's search is not so good anyway. And you can't usually view the 2nd+ page of TPB search results due to a bug in ixquick. But you can get the magnet uri's and .torrent files.
So the problem is already solved.

[zip accident]

Then they go after the anonymisers.

Censorship is coming.

[guythp]

Then they go after the anonymisers.

Censorship is coming.

Bukkake style?

[ElfQrin]

The Pirate Bay is blocked in Italy since 2008 (DNS) and 2010 (IP).

The more they censor the Web, the more the anonymous Internet grows, with projects like Tor Project: Vidalia and Freenet's groups.
And then there'll be little they could do about it.

[zip accident]

The more they censor the Web, the more the anonymous Internet grows, with projects like Tor Project: Vidalia and Freenet's groups.
And then there'll be little they could do about it.

They could make connecting to those an offence.

I'm not in favour of censorship, but it does seem to be coming.

[Truder]

And when does censorship become surveillance and when does surveillance becomes invasion of privacy?

[Darkflame]

Thats easy, censorship is passive, surveillance is active.
Or, in computing terms, censorship would be blocking the event before it happens, surveillance would be monitoring and going after you later for doing so.

Arguably one causes the other when something is impossible to police and stop in all case's so monitoring and checking is needed instead. (ie, prosecuting a shop for saling something they shouldn't).

With ISPs though there is no excuse for surveillance - they could easily block IPs getting to their servers without looking at who's asking for them, let alone keep records of them.