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- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -9/+120This doesn't make sense. Google and Yahoo search both easily lead me to copyrighted material that I could easily download. So, as a result, shouldn't these web sites be blocked also? Wake up people, even if you don't use bit torrent, realize that there are many positive legal reasons to use it. Just because something is a torrent file, doesn't mean it is illegal copyrighted material. The powers at be, with these kinds of rulings and the talk of tiered Internet access, is their way of controlling how you consume media. It has nothing to do with piracy. The promise of broadband was that we were supposed to be able to use the bandwidth for downloading and streaming media. Now that we are using the product as intended (and I don't mean by stealing every bit of copyrighted material available), they want to take it away from us.
- CaffeinePowered, on 02/06/2008, -4/+90*****
- Midtowner, on 02/06/2008, -2/+61Everyone knows that Pirate Bay and services like that offer end-users the potential to break the law. It's quite funny to watch the law scramble to catch up with technology -- always a step behind. When will the media industry realize that they're wasting time and resources on an endless game of whack-a-mole?
Also, does anyone find it to be amazing how lawmaking bodies worldwide are so quick to respond to the concerns of the media industry versus how slow the same bodies are at solving the problems facing the public-at-large? The influence of money in the political process is disgusting, isn't it? - inactive, on 02/06/2008, -2/+53I agree, but what do Poland, 9/11 and Ron Paul have to do with this?
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -2/+45good point
- Respec7, on 02/06/2008, -2/+44Those guys kill me, keep going guys!
- say592, on 02/06/2008, -3/+44Use OpenDNS or another similar service.
Thats the best option available to you. - xlneoMAXlx, on 02/06/2008, -2/+40Good point, but __________, not to mention ____________ _____ _ __ ______ ______ __ ________ ___.
- norman619, on 02/06/2008, -0/+27He's posting from the Recycle bin.
- totallyspotless, on 02/06/2008, -3/+26It’s very frightening that the IFPI can get through the courts with something like this. In Turkey and China its the state that decides what information the people can access and what should be censored. In Denmark its apparently the record industry.”
great response! - NoCt1, on 02/06/2008, -0/+23yep. makes you think.. What is he really trying to say?
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -3/+26you shouldnt use phrases like "wake up people." its really obnoxious
- Winston84, on 02/06/2008, -3/+24Just in case you feel lonely and need to write somebody :
Jesper Bay : bay@ifpi.dk
Liar ( I refuse to misspell it "lawyer") Johan Schluter : jos@jschluter.com
And some more prostitutes you can write for some free ass-tunelling :
aja@ifpi.dk
wig@ifpi.dk
jap@jschluter.com
nbj@jschluter.com
sus@jslaw.dk
tsj@jslaw.dk - blanktarget, on 02/06/2008, -1/+21Whenever I hear about the pirate bay and all their anttics with the police and what not I can only laugh and think of them running around hiding servers in high speed with chicken dance playing in the background.
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -1/+20Torrents are a key component to Vuze, a P2P content system that rides on top of Azeureus. Totally legal. This is just another end-around trying to fix a problem that isn't going to get fixed, taking it out on the only people they can find.
- KlogereEndGrim, on 02/06/2008, -0/+17Man... one of the first times in my life i feel embarressed about being Danish.
We stood up to the entire world during the Muhammed Crisis, and now we just took a huge dump right on the very same rights i thought we stood for.
I guess everything really is for sale. - inactive, on 02/06/2008, -6/+23http://83.140.176.146
that was tough - BaldMonkey, on 02/06/2008, -1/+17So the Dannish government that fought hard for their freedom of speech and claimed that censoring newspapers that printed the Muhammad cartoons was against what their countries values has started to censor the Internet.
- Mejogid, on 02/06/2008, -1/+15Won't do much good for anything that depends on the URL itself, such as .torrent files or web links - unless you want to change all that manually you'll need to modify your HOSTS file or use OpenDNS.
- ShyDiggFantasy, on 02/06/2008, -0/+13Fight!!!
- Winston84, on 02/06/2008, -0/+13No, the real difference is that The Pirate Bay wasn't started with venture-capital from a 3-letter US-agency .
- jellygraph, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10I am truly embarrassed that Denmark would do this...
- yunus, on 02/06/2008, -2/+12The floodgates are now open to sue Tele2.
- Nougat, on 02/06/2008, -2/+12I don't follow your logic at all. If you own a handgun, you're a murderer, since the primary use for handguns is to kill people.
(please don't say I have to put a /sarcasm tag on that) - IphtashuFitz, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10Yeah, that works well when ISP's block by IP address, not by DNS name.
- blackmage439, on 02/06/2008, -1/+11The Pirate Bay wins!
Fatality! - BaldMonkey, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9This is not the US. There will be no suing.
- krautkamel, on 02/06/2008, -4/+12Protect the Internet. It was created by the people for the people!
Don't let these corporate f**ks start censoring the only free media left on the planet. - Cannon49, on 02/06/2008, -4/+12Obligatory ***** THE RIAA
- NoCt1, on 02/06/2008, -5/+13They killed you? How are you posting? Did they make you walk the plank?
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7Man, The Pirate Bay is definitely taking some heat. They've been in legal disputes for quite some time now. I continue to applaud them for fighting every legal issue thrown at them! Long live torrents!
- krautkamel, on 02/06/2008, -2/+9thats isn't what this about, pay attention.
- inactive, on 02/07/2008, -1/+8bad point
- NJPENSO, on 02/06/2008, -2/+9THANK YOU, if one more person tells me to wake up I'm voting for Hillary and spending the rest of my life trying to make torrents illegal. ***** you!
- BaldMonkey, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7Just everyone who speak Danish and the rest of Scandinavia.
- Heidenreich12, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6I can see it now... "The RIAA now claiming power companies are to blame for pirated material. They supply the power to the users, who then use their power to visit the piratebay. Lets shut them down". They are ridiculous
- peilo, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5Long live torrents and freedom~ Fu*k the Riaa, MPAA and esp; F*ck Dan Glickman. Theres enough monitoring in this world, just in all the wrong places!
- philtothemax, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5The Pirate Bay rules. Get all my downloads there.
- init100, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4To prove that you are wrong, anyone can upload a torrent of some legal material. Maybe you shouldn't make assertions that are this easy to disprove.
- osbjmg, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4You don't need to, you aren't blocked.
- KlogereEndGrim, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5just ***** off if you are just going to spam drone-***** will you?
- linkwray, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4It's you who are confused. The Pirate Bay crisis has everything to do with freedom of speech, specifically government control and censorship over information. Remember, no Swedish laws are being broken by TPB. The Pirate Bay crisis also has everything to do with a private business *from a foreign country* trying to control and manipulate laws in a different country. The only thing you'll find on TPB's servers are torrent files, which are plain text files that contain no infringing content or someone else's intellectual property whatsoever. And there are plenty of these text files that point to public domain information, and copyrighted information whose copyright holder has authorized their content to be distributed by TPB in this manner.
- KlogereEndGrim, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3The other Danish ISP's will sadly have to follow suit, since the ruling will de facto apply to all Danish ISP's.
- heystoopid, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3No , it all started with a campaign some time ago of one of that appeared to be of moral high ground to protect the children by wrapping them in swathes of cotton wool by allegedly blocking known ISP addresses with so called questionable Child Pron ! Guess who paid these brain dead stick in the mud Luddite organizations all the big media publicity costs ! Very interesting campaign it was indeed given that in Denmark the populations attitude towards nudity in a public place in general for all age groups was very liberal and not normally frowned upon or censored in any way !
Once the door was open , the process to ban any particular site was ridiculously easy and just required one false and fictitious letter of allegation to put it on the list , thus the wowsers from MPAA,RIAA,BPI and IFPI said oh gee we put all those sites we hate like Allofmp3 , The Pirate Bay and so forth on the list too and force the owners to spend volumes of cash within the Danish Legal system to get these bans overturned and all it would ever cost us is one postage stamp to the administrator , ain't life sweet !
Thus the craven cowards within the Danish Government could proudly say don't blame us , as it is not using one cent of public funds , it is a private company run by an independent bunch of wankers mere doing the minorities wishes who had hoodwinked the majority with a fictitious campaign based on the questionable morals and hidden agendas who campaigned for the this dumb system !
Oh well , were warned about these brain dead hypocritical idiots back in the late sixties ! :( - funkytaco, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3Tell Davey Jones I said hi.
- linkwray, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3George Romero's film "Night of the Living Dead" is in the public domain and is available on TPB.
That's at least one piece of "legal content." - FeloniusMonkey, on 02/06/2008, -2/+5I despise the RIAA, and I am vehemently against blocking P2P traffic just because P2P is a popular avenue for piracy. It's essentially imposing martial law on the Internet.
HOWEVER, it's not like the site in question is called "The Happy Legal Sharing Place". It's called "The Pirate Bay". And while I agree that you can't judge a book by its cover, I'm certainly not surprised this is happening. - init100, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3Maybe not. It actually looks like the Danish court may be breaking the law. The court says that ISPs have to block TPB because infringement is taking place inside their routers, but there is an explicit exemption for this in the law, since not having the exemption would effectively require the closing of the internet.
Furthermore, the EU directive the law is based on says that member countries are required to include this exemption in their laws. Expect this judgement to be fought all the way to the top. - brucebeardmore, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a
Danish. - Winston84, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4Hey, if you think (like I do) that the judge is a MAFIAA ass-tunneler :
Poul Bisgaard-Frantzen
pbf@domstol.dk
http://www.dommerfm.dk/vcard.asp?uId=194
Christ, I just saw on that site that hes not even a real judge, more like a judge-apprentice
and he's only a temp !! -
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