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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20every once in a while i will search digg and find stories posted a couple of days ago with 1000's of diggs and I'm like "but wait i was here for my 2-3 hours that day, how did i miss that?"
The point is people miss interesting stories, and if they are interesting enough they will come to the front page again... especially if they add new info like this one.
Seriously it is impossible to keep up with every story that reaches the front page..
I dont have my job staying in bed yet with nasa, so give me a break if i digg a dupe. - Califax9898, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14And so it begins.....
People need to understand freedom isn't taken away suddenly, its taken bit by bit. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11True, but this article actually shows the severity of the verdict.
That it is illegal for ISPs to transfer "copyrighted" bits. - Hellman109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Here in Australia an ISP is deemed to be a carrier.
What that means is that they are not responsible for what happens over their lines basically.
Just like phone companies are not responsible if I call someone about a crime, or to plan a crime, or even to commit a crime.
Crazy what has happened there though, how ridiculous. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8makes me wonder how much the danish gov/rulers get off of regular music sales? Their must be a motive i am sure
- Jerky1312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Boycotting music in general will be difficult, but boycotting mainstream music isn't that hard, considering the endless numbers of indepenent alteranatives out there. There are alot of talented non-mainstream artists out there, you just have to search for them. The process involves searching for the indie bands, but it isn't too hard with the tools and sites available online. It's also more fun to discover a band you like, rather than having the mainstream recording industry deciding what you should like, by forcing radio stations to play songs by artists they can generate the most money from.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5we have it, but you guys may not for much longer
- Garda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yea, but this is so stupid. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that an isp can filter everything for copyright. they will need to check every piece of data from every protocol. INCLUDING encrypted protocols. This is the same thing as letting Ted Stevens talk about net neutrality.
How can you let someone in charge of something that they know absolutely nothing about?
In the case the judge would have no idea about the implications of his decision were and how impossible it would be not implement. Not that filtering allofmp3.com is particularly hard, but when they have to extend that to every piece of copyrighted material, it's simply impossible. - RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I barfed after the "Danish Pubic" Incident :S
- Craz1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3nothing a Proxy can't fix
- lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How on earth is this "beginning" just now?
- CaffeineAddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yah, thats bogus ... sueing a ISP for having BITS of copyrighted material is like suing the Government Postal Service if you sent a burnt CD through the mail. Makes you wonder if the ISP's Layers fell asleep on the job in case
- sconk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We are just building the Danish WALL! :)
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2......or have a predefined list of IPs..................My ISP is even throttling encrypted bittorrent streams (only illegal, not legal)..
- black|math, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And there are always indepent artists that are willing to give music just so you can listen it and support them.
- Doggpound, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The only place I buy music now is www.emusic.com
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dont you think that the world has too many fat and worthless donuts? o.O
- trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No more!? NO MORE!??
So you can accept a certain amount of censorship?
Move to China please. - kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"ust like phone companies are not responsible if I call someone about a crime, or to plan a crime, or even to commit a crime."
If they could, im sure they would do that too, but network traffic is waaay different and manageble.
What will the internet end up to be? A legit marketplace, and only a marketplace? - kurtergad87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Danish government didn't have anything to do with this. It was a court order. The politicians seem to understand the dilemma fairly well, although I'm not sure they are prepared to change the laws any time soon.
- Muyoso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Boycotting music is hard? Um, read a newspaper, watch the news, listen to some talk radio. Do something productive, its really not THAT hard. Listen to a book on tape if you have to. You make it sound like boycotting music is some giant feat that only a hero would be able to accomplish.
- starguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Irreverently, the Danish pubic turn to the Pirate Bay, torrentportal.com, and the new Google Torrents, and Limewire to continue unabated fulfilling thier lust for corrupt American Indy Music!
http://rootpassword.com
Why steal it though, when you can get the absolute best and freshest s*** on myspace for free direct from the artists... - mrmorris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As a dane, I am truely annoyed at these latest trends. There are no hidden motives by the government though, in fact, they cound't care less and has deemed allofmp3 legal until the opposite has been proven in court (and it hasn't). What has happend appear to be the same as what happened with the internation debit/credit company Visa, they were preassured (by the RIAA of Denmark) into NOT doing business with allofmp3.
It is however, a trivial thing to bypass by the tech sawwy user. Though popular in China, I am certain than no ISP can nor will do much to withhold censoring in general. Kiddy porn is already filtered and that I find to be ok, but no more. - covidiu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Next thing you know, telcos will be responsible for the phone conversations of their clients.
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes, but if the telephone company knowingly permits the use of its lines for illegal activities, doesn't court have the right to interfere? and i suppose you know that legality of various actions vary from nation to nation. If there has been a ruling that the usage of allofmp3 is illegal, then the court has every right to regulate ISP's services.
- DanielNielsen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm danish and i don't give a rats ass, but then again I'm in the safe cause i have cybercity as my ISP, but they will prolly do the same some time soon.
- Muyoso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why do I care if peoples freedom is taken away in another country?
- dBLiSS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sucks to be Danish, now more then ever.
(P.S. Just a joke :) - nielsbjerg, on 07/06/2009, -2/+1The beautiful part is, that they censored it by putting a bogus IP address in their DNS so if you know allofmp3's IP you can just add it locally to your PC, and un-censor it yourself!
- dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2that's why we need network neutrality.
- tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Boycott? Damn it, it's just too hard to boycott music to any real degree.
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2You are the proxy... All Your Mp3's Are Belong To Us
- mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2PowerCow, there is NO way that a post with the words "Danish", "ISP", "allofmp3" and "censor" would NOT be shown by digg as a possible duplicate of one of the previous submissions just before submitting it.
As for missing interesting stories, that is exactly why there's a Recently Popular bar right on the top of the page, using which you can find out about the top stories not only of today but of yesterday, this week, this month or even this year. If that's not enough, you can use the Popular Archive link on your left navigation bar.
Hope that helped. - mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -17/+10In Soviet Russia, Internet censors YOU!
- Trention, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6This has been on the front more than once recently. Here's one:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Danish_ISP_Must_Block_AllofMp3
Another:
http://digg.com/world_news/Court_in_Denmark_orders_ISP_to_deny_access_to_AllOfMp3_com
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