• Courts used to block pirate site
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Uh oh, this is only going to end badly. What gives the MPA the right to get this injunction anyway.
Just what we need...
It's a good thing they sued this site, I'd never heard of it. Better check it out.
Pff, they'll most likely only block it on a DNS level, because that's easy and doesn't put more load on the ISP's server.
I think as long as distributing copyrighted works is illegal, then the proper way to handle piracy sites is for the owners of the pirated material to go through the court to get it taken off of the site. If multiple infringements are found then the owner(s) can come together to request an investigation on the site, where if the site is found to offer pirated works in majority to other downloads, the owner of the site must remove the works or the site be taken down. As far as reparations go to the content owners, don't sue the site for money but rather the uploaders.
[QUOTE=Bletotum;30742890]I think as long as distributing copyrighted works is illegal, then the proper way to handle piracy sites is for the owners of the pirated material to go through the court to get it taken off of the site. If multiple infringements are found then the owner(s) can come together to request an investigation on the site, where if the site is found to offer pirated works in majority to other downloads, the owner of the site must remove the works or the site be taken down. As far as reparations go to the content owners, don't sue the site for money but rather the uploaders.[/QUOTE]They already tried suing uploaders, downloaders, sites. Nothing works
[QUOTE=johan_sm;30743221]They already tried suing uploaders, downloaders, sites. Nothing works[/QUOTE] Piracy is practically impossible to stop without severely gimping everyones freedom.
Sounds like a cool site.
I use to use this before it got shutdown. In the months after it was never really as good but it's obviously recovered now. And that's the point whatever they do, pirates will recover. They are literally making no difference. Just paving the way for more censorship. I mean, this site doesn't even host any content it's just indexes.
[QUOTE=Van-man;30742687]Pff, they'll most likely only block it on a DNS level, because that's easy and doesn't put more load on the ISP's server.[/QUOTE] It will be blocked in the same way that a page on Wikipedia was blocked in the UK for a few days. Which if I recall correctly sent all traffic heading for Wikipedia (both via known IP's and DNS names) through one or two proxies to give fake 404's. IP addresses that lead to Wikipedia that were not known about still allowed the page to be viewed so the blocking is pretty limited. [editline]27th June 2011[/editline] As for the site they want to block, do the MPA not relise how usenet works. I bet most of the content mentioned on that site is being downloaded off of ISP servers. I'm not sure about other ISPs in the UK but Virgin Media offer extremely good usenet servers.
FUCK DA MPA!
Won't another site just show up if they block this one?
The article makes it sound like they're suing the same people even though they don't own the site anymore, who's actually operating it?
reported for warez!!
[QUOTE=smurfy;30742580]It's a good thing they sued this site, I'd never heard of it. Better check it out.[/QUOTE] Yeah, this happens a lot. Blocking things only draws attention to them. I've learned of quite a few questionable sites this way. [editline]28th June 2011[/editline] That, uh, I don't use, of course.
I would've figured sites would know better than to host movies themselves.
[QUOTE=venn177;30755174]I would've figured sites would know better than to host movies themselves.[/QUOTE] They aren't hosting anything, this is no worse than the pirate bay or google. In fact, it is closer to google than the pirate bay. It indexes stuff available on nearly any usenet server on the planet.
TPB will never go down, ever. It's here to stay until the end of the internet.
[QUOTE=MrPolon;30763889]TPB will never go down, ever. It's here to stay until the end of the internet.[/QUOTE] this isn't about the pirate bay I wish we still had the Bad Reading rating
[QUOTE=Van-man;30742687]Pff, they'll most likely only block it on a DNS level, because that's easy and doesn't put more load on the ISP's server.[/QUOTE] Can't we just switch to Google's openDNS?
[QUOTE=chrishind10;30777339]Can't we just switch to Google's openDNS?[/QUOTE] Well my ISP is already blocking TPB on their DNS servers.
This is how I looked at it, Piracy has been around for ages. Even before it became widely popular, It has not hurt sales, it has not hurt artists, Hell you hardly hear of artists crying about it, it is always the fucking producers and companies. For years these companies complain of loss profits but they can't seem to prove it. It is sicking to think that the government and other political figures will even consider siding with these money sucking leaches that call themselves a company. They can't prove shit so they bully and harass people to get what they want. They're noting but overgrown children that act like smug punks to get what they want. People have a right to view what they want, a company should not have the power to say "block this website because don't like it."
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