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Other => Computer News => Topic started by: Mulreay on April 30, 2012, 10:45:18 AM

Title: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
Post by: Mulreay on April 30, 2012, 10:45:18 AM

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.

The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly pirated free music and video.

Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176

Title: Re: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
Post by: Salmon Trout on April 30, 2012, 11:19:22 AM

Well that finishes file sharing in the UK, because there aren't any other sites or ways to get stuff, are there?

Title: Re: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
Post by: Mulreay on May 02, 2012, 03:20:03 PM

(http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6528/tpbblocked.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/209/tpbblocked.jpg/)

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And the pirate bay has now been blocked by my ISP. It was minor inconvenience for about 20 secs.  ;D

Title: Re: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
Post by: Salmon Trout on May 02, 2012, 03:48:57 PM

Quote from: Mulreay on May 02, 2012, 03:20:03 PM

It was minor inconvenience for about 20 secs.  ;D

That long? ;)

To be fair, this is from their own discussion forum

(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p29/badoit/pbay.jpg)

Title: Re: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
Post by: Mulreay on May 02, 2012, 07:12:37 PM

And in true Pirate Bay fashion there are already UK URL's that circumvent these blocks. Not sure if I should add them on here so thought better of it.   ;)

Title: Re: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
Post by: BC_Programmer on May 02, 2012, 07:22:51 PM

It's sort of funny when you think about it. The decision and it's "implications" were probably weighed over a relatively long period, as the lawyers involved hemmed and hawwed about the implications of preventing UK citizens from viewing the page. Of course, what they forgot about was that you cannot, no matter how hard you try, prevent people from viewing specific web pages if they really want to; so all their important decision making amounts to pretty much nothing since all the people accessing it before are still accessing it anyway.

In this case it's sort of like if the website was a certain house, and the court ruled that no taxi driver may drop a person off there; it wouldn't take long for people to just tell taxi drivers to drop them off at the house next door instead. And if they outlaw that, then what's to stop somebody from skydiving and going through that houses skylight? etc.