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- coolrecep, on 10/10/2007, -2/+47Are you joking?
I live in Turkey and the PirateBay is blocked in Turkey for a very long time......
When you try to accees the site it says:
"Access to this site is forbidden with the order of the court"
But that does not stop me...All I need is OpenDNS....
In Turkey also once upon a time these sites were forbidden:
YouTube
Wordpress
Ekşisözlük (Turkeys biggest urban dictionary)
They will allow the access soon beacuse the users quota must be exceeded and Turkish Telekom (Sold to Oger Telecoms) must earn money. Thats why they have allowed YouTube access after 3 days of blocking...They saw that the users quotas are standing still and we cant earn money any more.
Nearly %50 of Turkish Internet users connect internet with this package: 1 Mbit/s 4 GB Download Limit. 7 $ for every 1 GB exceed... - pennyfan87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34I bet TPB was serving up waaaay too much They Might Be Giants.
But that's nobody's business but the Turks'. - OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24Turkey's got a thousand torrent and even more warez sites of its own, what's the point of blocking TPB?
- Krakn3Dfx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23I don't understand the big deal about TPB. I did a search for "Doomsday" a couple of days ago, and got a million hits, none of which had the actual word "Doomsday" in them.
I think TPB gets a lot of attention because they flaunt themselves to the world, but from a practical standpoint, their site is next to useless compared to other Torrent search sites. - andrewsas, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22And they still want to be part of the European culture as well as EU. Odd don't ya think?
- coolrecep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15You must be joking too.... Turkeys Population is 75 Miliion, There are 40 million mobile phone users!!! There are 20 million internet users...(Connecting via internet cafes) There are 4 million internet subscrbiers I have to say that cuz you seem like to know very little about Turkey.. We are the most modern Country with islam as religion...
and unlike others we use Latin alphabet.... - plizard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16guess i wont be moving to turkey after all
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Blocked how? On an ISP DNS level? If so, just use OpenDNS...
- str3ama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Interestingly enough it's alleged that they banned it not because of pirated content, but because of the allegation that child pornography was being shared on the tracker.
- aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Not hard to believe at all if you understand how DNS works.
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11@ livefr33ordi3
Yes the typical ignorance from some westerners. Ignorance breeds fear. Fear breeds hatred.
Please send my sympathy to your parents who given birth to an ignorant intolerance child. Your education must mainly consist of 24 hours of Fox news and O'reilly Fair and Balance. - str3ama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9please accept my sympathies for your mother having dropped you several times.
- Otto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Who cares? Turkey blocks everything. They even blocked wordpress.com:
http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/08/19/why-were-blocked-in-turkey/ - junaru, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Albania in EU ? Can i have what you're smoking ?
- kronix2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Wasn't that child porn thing just slander spread by somebody (the **AA?) to justify ISPs/governments blocking TPB?
- thebellmaster1x, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13By "close to illegal," do you mean "not illegal at all because they're in Sweden and they don't have moronic copyright laws there"?
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Dugg down for misuse of word "theft" and subject to media company brainwashing into intellectual properties are physical and stolen, rather than rights to work of art being violated.
Hell, the crimes aren't even ruled the same juridical scale by a judge! - kronix2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7They are part of European culture. Turkey is historically and culturally a European nation, and has influenced the rest of Europe greatly. That they aren't considered to be within geographical Europe is a massive oversight by whoever drew up the map of Europe. Besides, Europe and Asia are really one continent, and the border between them is completely arbitrary.
Banning TPB is hardly an indication that their culture is radically different to ours. That they ban any criticism of Ata Turk, and have a state policy of denying genocide, is a better indication.
I don't support their application to join the EU, though. Europe is on a path to total non-observance of religion, and having millions of observant Muslims migrate to other EU countries is something nobody within the EU wants to see. I don't want their populations in individual countries to be large enough for Muslim/Islamic political parties to be viable. Why? Because such a party would be socially conservative and hostile to modern European attitudes to freedom of speech, the right to criticise and ridicule religion, the rights of women, the rights of homosexuals and the rest of it. - robphillips, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yea I got to the UAE and it was already blocked.. As is a bunch of sites.. Flicr.. ect. Whoopdy hell though. TPB is also blocked in probably every highschool in the US.. write about that.. -dugg down as lame.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7you do understand that different nations have different sets of laws, right? there isn't anything inherently immoral about what TPB does, and, similarly, legality does not imply morality. clearly the swedish people do not think that file-sharing is a crime, nor do many other countries. and thankfully most people aren't so quick to support government censorship on the internet based on erroneous and unpopular copyright laws.
i have to agree with moxley here, your comment is pretty retarded. it's like arguing that slavery is the slave owner's own business because it's legal. most things that women are allowed to do in the U.S. are illegal in places like saudi arabia, so does that mean that oppressing women is justifiable? i really hope that you're just some naive teenager, because your lack of critical thought is rather pathetic. - TidusBlade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It's also blocked here, in UAE =[ Along with hundreds of other torrent trackers...
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I don't care about their site. I care about the tracker that's hosted on their site.
- dillinger23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Albania is a candidate member to join the EU but by the look of things (***** economy and even worse political system)
it won't be any time soon that this happens. - wafflesomd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Isohunt is better.
- DestroyFascism, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6So will Turkey block the infamous Turkish Hackers Clan? I doubt it.....
- Alpione, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Wow... Did you just use "ohhh noes" and "n00bs" in the same sentence? And does your hand really have "l337" in it? You sure you aren't one of those 12 year old kids you seem to despise so much?
- PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Or the IP...
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3right, because all copyright laws are equal. no one says that there shouldn't be copyright laws, just that the way copyright and patent protections are implemented in the U.S. is retarded. sweden has copyright laws too you know. or did you think that swedes can't copyright their works?
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3FTA it says that the site's been blocked for over a year:
"We asked the TPB guys if they knew anything about this. According to them, it has been blocked “for over a year.” They’re “not sure if it’s the whole country or just the major ISPs,” but “there was some court ruling over it.” That court ruling, we’ve discovered, has ordered Türk Telekom, Turkey’s largest ISP, to block The Pirate Bay, though why exactly is still unknown to both the site’s admins and users of the site in Turkey." - daftman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3By the look of things you don't know very much
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3erm, don't you mean the EU?
- pentacle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I bet that Albania will be a member before Turkey.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2wow, you've totally changed my mind with your ironclad logic.
maybe you should try to refute arguments that you disagree with rather than just matter-of-factly stating that they're wrong. and if you've got no clue about the issue at hand, then please stay out of the discussion until you care to inform yourself.
file-sharing is not the same as piracy, and piracy is hardly theft as no one is being deprived of any of their property. - moxley, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8Kinda like how his comment was close to retarded.
- Travelsonic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If having a differing opinion is the same a having a lack of morals, I'd HATE to know what your ideas of having morals are.
- addicted68098, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The problem isn't Islam, it's radicals and it's the same for any region. I know plenty of Muslims and Turkish people who are decent people.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2instead of starting a dialog with those of differing opinions you choose to just troll and ask to be dug down. is that perhaps due to the fact that you can't defend your position?
you "anti-piracy" folks must lack faculties of thought since all you guys can seem to muster up in defense of your ignorant views is to repeat "it's theft! it's theft!" over and over again. but keep burying your head in the sand and feigning superiority over others. i'm sure whatever pleasure you losers get from trolling is just to make up for your personal insecurities over being so utterly stupid. - ronjohn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2in conjunction with onionrouter aka TOR or just a regular proxy.
- KirbyMeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2How ironic; the article is blocked by "Smart"filter.
- OutThisLife, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You're an idiot.
- Grayfox777, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What a bunch of crap! I'm glad to not be living there!
- addicted68098, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'm not sure what to hate more:
the pirates
or the Censorship - kotatsu, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6Have a look at some of the countries which are already a part of the EU, such as Albania. Turkey is far more developed economically, but it's middle eastern derived culture will be pretty alien to most Europeans. And stating the obvious - only a *tiny* part of Turkey is geographically in Europe anyway, so their request for membership is on those grounds at least, pretty ridiculous. Oh and Turkey just voted in an Islamist religious PM. Ooops.
- str3ama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It was on afterdawn.com a while back.
- pentacle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You use internet?
- TidusBlade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1not the internet :S
- mdonatas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2or mininova.org
- ronjohn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Why don't they use a proxy or TOR?
- noerrorsfound, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I see what you did there.
- free0l, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Too sad to see what has become of digg.com.
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