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Comments on news posted 2008-02-12 08:50:34: Last week the Danish courts ordered one Danish ISP to block its broadband customers from accessing popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. ..

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Doctor Four
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IFPI=Pwn3d. Can you say Streisand Effect?

Seems every time the IFPI does something like this and
it gets made public, the opposite effect of what they
intended to happen occurs.

And once again they've been made to look like a bunch
of fools.
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Tah Internet

@rwoodbroadband.com
Has anyone else noticed...

...how this "Internet" thing shows a marked propensity to route around stupidity?

I can't make it out. Is this a trend of some kind?

lordofwhee

join:2007-10-21
Everett, WA
I don't know, you might be onto something here!


Daddy

join:2007-12-07
Bronx, NY
reply to Doctor Four
Re: IFPI=Pwn3d. Can you say Streisand Effect?

"Theres no noticeable difference between the number of users from Tele2.dk before and after."

It's pretty funny actually, people nowadays aren't as dumb as back in the early days, there will always be ways to get around things.


karlmarx

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reply to Tah Internet
Re: Has anyone else noticed...

Lesson learned: If you take the UNDERGROUND public, it becomes bigger than ever before. The simple fact that the megacorps are too stupid to realize. There will ALWAYS be a way around whatever 'block' they try. Remember, your not downloading anything illegal from TPB, you're just downloading a hash to a file, which may or MAY NOT be illegal in your country.
Again, no-one is DOWNLOADING anything ILLEGAL from the pirate bay, they are just downloading a HASH of something. The HASH is not illegal, well, no more illegal than what google indexes.
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Red Dragon
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join:2005-04-30
Scarsdale, NY

They will never learn

Where there is a will there is a way. Blocking and bypassing is the nature of the security cat and mouse game. Just look at the amount of time and effort that apple and its 3rd party security firm have put into blocking jailbreak. Yet each firmware gets "harder" and it still gets unlocked.
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TKJunkMail
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reply to Doctor Four
Re: IFPI=Pwn3d. Can you say Streisand Effect?

We'll see if the PB principals are still laughing if they get sent to prison by the Swedish court hearing the case brought against them by the prosecutor.


ARGONAUT
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join:2006-01-24
New Albany, IN
Danish ISP

Great comedy.

wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..

join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH
reply to TKJunkMail
Re: IFPI=Pwn3d. Can you say Streisand Effect?

They will be laughing, because TPB = Skynet. There is no system core.

Nice work IFPI, MPAA, RIAA. You created your own failure, and are working to expand it now.

jc100

join:2002-04-10


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reply to TKJunkMail
Swedish Law does not prohibit trackers. Also, as time has shown again and again, A large percentage of Swedish society is involved in piracy. Why? Well they are one of the most wired countries in the world. I am not sure how they compare to Japan and Korea, but I'm positive Sweden is within this top three category. It's going to be really hard to prevent TPB from their activities. What's to say the TPB doesn't simply start proxying their site traffic? I mean they have the bandwidth and I'm sure more than a few willing participants. It's a losing battle, and I just don't see Swedish Courts looking to piss off a large portion of the country. Politicians make and enforce dumb laws, only when they know people aren't looking. In this case, the country has their eye on them, and everyone in office knows it.

Here's a great example. We all know fast food is bad for you. It leads to obesity and medical problems if eaten often. Yet, people are still free to consume it. Do you think politicians in this country would dare to make laws banning the sale of fast food? I read in Arkansas they are trying to do just that to obese people. How well do you think this will go over, and odds are it won't pass. Why? Well, there are certain things you can get away with, and others that people simply are too interested and vocal about saving. Hence, the piracy issue and this are perfect examples of how people mobilize when the issue has a large impact on their lives.

Kearnstd
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reply to Doctor Four
when will the MAFIAA and courts learn that they only generate press for piracy and lead more people to explore it when they slam actions against it all over the news.

just remember, we have people who constantly complain about p2p piracy yet i havent met anyone who back in the pre DVD days didnt use two VCRs and copy a movie they rented.
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Raydr
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join:2000-11-19
Carrollton, TX
Hmm?

What happens when they block DNS requests to outside providers?


uglytruth

@verizon.net
Suck it, ifpi

This would be even more amusing IF there was more porn on pirate bay.. just to piss off the ifpi.


jgkolt
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clubs:
publicity

as i said when this starting a little while back, this is all just good advertising for the site.
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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Hooray

Hooray for me Pirate Bay, Arrr! Make those IFPI lassies walk the plank!


dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
Advertise Much?

DAMN! You can BUY publicity like this!

Idiots!


bear73
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reply to Kearnstd
Re: IFPI=Pwn3d. Can you say Streisand Effect?

because back in the day, the news didn't pay attention to it and the industries weren't concerned about it because they can't track a sneaker net. but across the internet there are databases for the weasels to track us with...


bear73
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reply to Raydr
Re: Hmm?

ummmm.... a revisitation of the early AOL days? I don't see that happening. That would be teh beginning of the end as hte majority would rise up and fight the opressors....
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alalper
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Philadelphia, PA
reply to dadkins
Re: Advertise Much?

Actually, you really CAN'T buy publicity like this.

Ahh. . . but, they'll never learn.


ftthz
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join:2005-10-17
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Whatever doesn't kill them can only make them stronger
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