TPB Comment of the Day
Support a great artist,
will seed for a while
BT has been asked by music industry outfit BPI to voluntarily block BitTorrent tracker website The Pirate Bay. "For too long The Pirate Bay has been allowed to attack the livelihoods of individual artists and session musicians. We hope that BT will voluntarily block this prolific, illegal site,” wrote the BPI in a missive …
"allowed to attack the livelihoods of individual artists "
Contrast that with the recording industry, that merely makes artists sign away their creative rights in exchange for a tiny cut of album sales (less expenses of course, and anything they can get away with calling promotional material.)
Artists can then use that income to pay off the huge sums of money generously "loaned" by the record label when they financed the recording in the first place, and the video, and all that promotion.
It constantly baffles me why these idiots think that a pathetic measure like this will work.
If you are reading this BPI, it won't make any difference whatsoever. Block as many sites as you want but until you can offer a reasonably priced easy to use service, piracy will carry on no matter whom you sue or which sites you block.
PS I'm not a BT subscriber so I shall carry on using TPB no matter what, but even if I were, I would still carry on using it, even if BT is stupid enough to accede to your request, because I know more about how to circumvent measures like this than you do about blocking access to sites.
So there.
We have a BT ADSL account at work and I tried Newzbin yesterday which was of course blocked. However, I pinged the hostname and received an IP address, I pasted the IP into the browser and it worked. I thought it would have been a more extensive than just plain DNS.
Here is to laughing at Record companies using their millions to try and propagate a dated and failing business model.
let em have their way and block all what they want.
In these times of instant messaging, it'll be blocked on friday, and the ways to get around it will be available to the masses by the following monday. It's a futile attempt, but whatever makes them happy I suppose.
If there's something I want, usually I'll grab a torrent to check it out. However, I regularly purchase albums from Itunes, and actually have a sense of satisfaction that I've purchased it. Torrent deleted. I always used to buy cds. But these take up way too much space these days, so buying a digital copy is no different. I just have a huge tv where the cds used to be.
... seems to be an easy ISP to hit if you want to try & block something. Wonder if they will bend over & do it.
@MD1500 adding a S will not work. Technology has moved on & it is possible for a device* to processes your HTTPS requests & read/log anything you do over "S". It would be safe to say that all tho BT don't do it, they could if the need ever arouse.
* I believe Fortigate Firewalls can do this, or thats what they said they could do when I went to a presentation they did for me last year. So if anyone can confirm this as fact or fiction, I would be eternally grateful :)
Sure, you could MITM any http traffic over ssl, but it would of course introduce certificate errors for the client. That kind of setup is fine for a corporate environment where you can ensure that every client trusts the certificate, but it's *impossible* to do it for every consumer.
Stanford has a presentation on it: http://crypto.stanford.edu/ssl-mitm/
If the judge isn't senile surely this would be laughed out of court. The MPAA haven't made any attempt to contact the seeders sharing the copyrighted works.
If the case succeeds then it should be possible to use it as a precedent to get Google similarly blocked. There is some copyrighted material on YouTube and I'm sure that Google, like the PirateBay, would not help to remove it no matter how many nice letters that they are sent.