100M : The Pirate Bay is blocked

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Originally Posted by _wtf_

It seems some people don't know how to use Google (it was actualy proven one night).

Gigidy.

Originally Posted by _wtf_

This lot are taking this lot to court for copyright infringement. What did they do you ask, they linked to an article about them. As linking is fundamental to the world wide web and would drive traffic to the site being linked to I would say if this became common place the web would simply cease to be.

Meanwhile in other news TPB has simply starting using one of their other IP addresses, apparently they have hundreds. It's pretty obvious that the people who pass these laws not only have no idea how the web works but have also never played whack-a-mole.

That's an excellent find, and well done to McGarr solicitors for so assiduously defending the Womens' Aid people - abuse of copyright protection is not appropriate.

[Efour]

I appreciate that your discussion has moved on probably seeing as its 40+ pages long but can someone explain to me why the powers that be are having kittens about TPB or torrenting but not newsgroups where from my knowledge the big "offenders" download from? Or is the issue that the ISPS are being used to transmit the material?

Does paying a monthly fee to a 3rd party "criminal" hosting it all make it more legal cos they pay tax on their earnings?

Originally Posted by Efour

can someone explain to me why the powers that be are having kittens about TPB?

Because the copyright laws are either unworkable/unenforceable or the powers that be have no clue what they are doing ,take your pick

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by Hugh

That's an excellent find, and well done to McGarr solicitors for so assiduously defending the Womens' Aid people - abuse of copyright protection is not appropriate.

How about these 'finds'. The last one proving only the media companies can get away with infringing copyright.

Dave Gorman

A Lindsay Lohan fan

Adele Dubois

Jay Leno

[Sirius]

Still only blocked on VM via 1 address, Every other option works first time

[kwikbreaks]

The site with the most blatant copyright infringing material is surely YouTube and they actually host the material itself not just links to trackers. I doubt we'll see any court orders trying to block that though.

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Originally Posted by Sirius

Still only blocked on VM via 1 address, Every other option works first time

20 seconds on google to find one which in the article was apparently the first alternate IP and it does indeed work just fine.

This debacle is hardly showing English courts in a good light. I wonder if there is a Plan B.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

The site with the most blatant copyright infringing material is surely YouTube and they actually host the material itself not just links to trackers. I doubt we'll see any court orders trying to block that though.

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20 seconds on google to find one which in the article was apparently the first alternate IP and it does indeed work just fine.

This debacle is hardly showing English courts in a good light. I wonder if there is a Plan B.

Been saying it for a while about Youtube.

However they are big and have the money to be able to fight the rights holders. On those grounds the rights owners will just settle with suing the average Joe int the street like the cowards they are.

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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

This debacle is hardly showing English courts in a good light. I wonder if there is a Plan B.

Maybe we were given an indication about plane B over the weekend

[Russ]

Aren't YouTube owned by Google? I'd love to see someone take them on directly.

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

The site with the most blatant copyright infringing material is surely YouTube and they actually host the material itself not just links to trackers. I doubt we'll see any court orders trying to block that though.

The French courts have just proved your point.

Originally Posted by Russ

Aren't YouTube owned by Google? I'd love to see someone take them on directly.

Google been taken on and won a couple of times. The trouble is Google is TOO big it's the little sites that are being harassed.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Russ

Aren't YouTube owned by Google? I'd love to see someone take them on directly.

Unfortunatly Russ the rights owners don't have the balls for a real fight and choose to pick on the small guy instead.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

Pretty sure your "civil liberties" don't include the right to steal stuff

Just as long as we don't confuse freedom with rights.

I have the freedom to steal stuff, but I do need to be aware of the rights of others and the law. If I choose to ignore those I must accept the consequences.

[kwikbreaks]

Originally Posted by _wtf_

The French courts have just proved your point.

Looks very much like the defence the Megaupload owners put up - didn't stop the Septics shutting the site down and cuffing the owners though. It also caused a whole raft of other hosting sites to commit hari-kari by only serving uploaded files to the original uploader.

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

Looks very much like the defence the Megaupload owners put up - didn't stop the Septics shutting the site down and cuffing the owners though. It also caused a whole raft of other hosting sites to commit hari-kari by only serving uploaded files to the original uploader.

That case is slowly falling apart, they didn't even have the correct warrants when they did the raid so there is some debate as to whether the evidence is even admissible. Then the FBI moved the computers to the US without the New Zealand authorities knowing.

[AdamD]

Sky blocks access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site



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