Pirate Bay Must Be Blocked High Court Tells ISPs

[Left Leanings]

Bastards:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9236667/Pirate-Bay-must-be-blocked-High-Court-tells-ISPs.html

A High Court judge, has told broadband Internet Service Providers, such as O2, Virgin, Sky etc, that it must stop peeps accessing Pirate Bay, starting in the next few weeks.

Fuck off.

[Geiseric]

Damnit, that's where i download my marxist stuff...

[RedAnarchist]

I don't see how these blocks even work, because anyone can get past them if they wanted to.

[LeftAtheist]

As I believe Marx once said, the BPI are a bunch of greedy, thieving shitbags. I'm off to educate myself in bypassing these blocks.

[Hit The North]

I don't see how these blocks even work, because anyone can get past them if they wanted to.

Tips, please!

[Brosip Tito]

Wouldn't that tore proxy browser be a way around this?

[LeftAtheist]

Stop presses comrades, all might not be lost:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/30/UK-isps-block-pirate-bay/

Apparently, the UK government asking ISPs to do this is in contravention of an EU court ruling.

[X5N]

Tips, please!

Just enter the IP address in place of the URL (like 192.121.86.0 for example), I think.

[piet11111]

Tips, please!

Google translate works wonders for the dutchies and unless they block google we can get away with it :laugh:

[Jimmie Higgins]

The most telling part of the article is the last quote:


“strongly believes that changing consumer behaviour to tackle copyright infringement also needs compelling legal alternatives, such as our agreement with Spotify, to give consumers access to great content at the right price." It's not about "protecting the artists" or any of that bullshit (as if the main antagonist to artistic control and freedom isn't these same companies pushing to stop file-sharing). Once again it's about who controls the means of production and distribution and for what purpose.

Man I wish I could find some of the web-utopians I ran into in the 1990s who talked about the internet making "corporate models" "obsolete". Yar-har, it's the system that shapes technology, not the other way around - stick to yer cyber-punk novels techno-yuppies! I also want someone who believes that capitalism is efficient and natural to explain these kinds of developments to me - or ones who believe that state power and regulations are unnecessary for private property and capitalism.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

For ..a-fuck...a-sake
Interweb is one of the few bastions of free expression and exchange and they keep closing off anything where you can get free access; it's all gonna be fucking paypal and amazon for everything you want to own and enjoy andif I was a lot smarter i'd fuck up these guys with some cyber attack or something else that involves typing and code and shit i don't understand arrrrgggh!!!!

Sorry, i had a lot of sugar this morning

[MrCool]

*cough*Tor Browser Bundle*cough*

You can access the site, and download torrents via magnet links, but Piratebay trackers don't work.

[Q]

This is a Dutch language site that was started since court decided at least two ISP's have to start blocking the pirate bay. It explains several ways to circumvent the blockade. You can of course translate it by Google Translate (incidentally one of the circumvention ways as well).

http://www.ikwilthepiratebay.nl/