Re: [Staffslug] ISP Censorship - The Pirate Bay
My thoughts are pretty much the same as Adam's: that it's a "thin end of
the wedge" type of thing. I suspect the next move from the entertainment
industry will be to complain that court orders take too long and that
they should be able to get things blocked on their say-so alone.
The blocks are easy to circumvent because ISPs are doing the minimum
required to comply with the court order. Blocking sites is not in their
interest: It costs them money and if it puts people of downloading they
will sell less high speed broadband connections.
Andy is correct: complaints should be directed at the politicians.
Dave.
On 27/06/12 19:15, Adam Egan wrote:
Hi Andy,
I suppose it is the Government that I'm angry at... its a bit like shoot
the messenger!
To anyone who doesn't know how to get round it... it can be as simple as
changing your DNS servers to Google/OpenDNS... or you might want to try a
web proxy or vpn like btguard. Might not be relevant now but I personally
fear that if they get away with blocking one website, they'll get
comfortable doing it.
Adam
Sent from my mobile device.
On 24 Jun 2012 22:41, "Andy Smith" <andy(a)strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:39:39PM +0100, Adam Egan wrote:
>> I was just wondering how many of you had noticed/been affected by the
>> blocking of thepiratebay.se by o2, Talk Talk, Virgin, Be, and BT?
>
> Most of these ISPs are obeying court orders. They have no choice but
> to obey it. A few of them gave quite vigorous defence in court in an
> attempt to avoid having to do this, so rather than complaining about
> the ISPs it is better to complain about and to the government.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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