AG wrote:whoops
SD wrote:http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57457001-93/u.k.s-largest-isp-blocks-the-pirate-bay-but-to-no-avail/
Yet more UK nanny state bullshit.
Decimus wrote:It's a wonder why they would waste their time and money on this. What the ISP's really should do is protest these court orders by either blocking popular sites like Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Bing, or by shutting down altogether to get peoples' attention.
Censorship just isn't right unless it's a direct threat to someone's livelihood. If censorship is going on because the rich want to get richer, the ISP's should not be paying for it and the people shouldn't be allowing it to happen.
Losing your internet would suck, but I think it sucks that these court orders point to the ISP's which are only meant to offer access to the internet.
FrostyC wrote:Don't they realize that these IP addresses may stop belonging to TPB one day? They are effectively making their internet smaller because they will have blocked out ranges of IP addresses. That's like saying I live in Canada and never want any communication from Orange County, California to reach me, but anywhere else would be fine. I mean what if someone moves out of Orange County? It's so fucking retarded they may as well cut their internet off now -- Apparently they are too stupid to be on them anyway. You cannot govern intangible objects like ideas and bits… fucknuts alls of ya…
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