Sweden To Try And Block The Pirate Bay, Again
from the didn't-work-last-time dept
Previous entertainment industry-led attempts to shut down The Pirate Bay torrent search engine haven't been successful, but the Swedish police are still trying to help out. Consequently, next week, the site will be blocked to anyone from inside the country who tries to visit it -- because it's being added to a list of child-pornography sites that Swedish ISPs block. A Pirate Bay admin writes on his blog that the police say that "if the content is still there next week", they'll add the site to the list -- but they won't specify what the offending content is (never mind the the site doesn't actually host and content on its own). It's highly unlikely it's actual child porn, though of course the entertainment industry has no problem equating file-sharing to child porn. But since the Pirate Bay is nothing more than a search engine, can Google expect to be blocked in Sweden soon? Yahoo? MSN? After all, chances are those sites link to at least one piece of copyrighted content.
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Here we go...
Let's face it, if you want to stop piracy at the source, do away with computers, and internet. Instead, they pick on search engines, not hosting sites, etc...dummies, people do find a way and pissing people off isn't going to help, for everything they take down, a new one grows. A new method of dealing with technology has to be placed.
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There are small amounts of child model galleries tracked via TPB, but to call them child porn is like calling a scrape an axe murder. Pictures of smiling kids in tight jeans and bikini tops is nowhere near porn, and even further from abuse. Any sexual message found in them is only there by the interpretation of the viewer.
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Either way - I didn't make what I said up.
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‘Catch–22.’
‘What?’ Yossarian froze in his tracks with fear and alarm and felt
his whole body begin to tingle. ‘What did you say?’
‘Catch–22’ the old woman repeated, rocking her head up and down.
‘Catch–22. Catch–22 says they have a right to do anything we
can’t stop them from doing.’
‘What the hell are you talking about?’ Yossarian shouted at her in
bewildered, furious protest. ‘How did you know it was Catch–22? Who
the hell told you it was Catch–22?’
‘The soldiers with the hard white hats and clubs. The girls were
crying. ‘Did we do anything wrong?’ they said. The men said no and
pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. ‘Then why
are you chasing us out?’ the girls said. ‘Catch–22,’ the men
said. ‘What right do you have?’ the girls said. ‘Catch–22,’
the men said. All they kept saying was ‘Catch–22, Catch–22.’
What does it mean, Catch–22? What is Catch–22?’
‘Didn’t they show it to you?’ Yossarian demanded, stamping about
in anger and distress. ‘Didn’t you even make them read it?’
‘They don’t have to show us Catch–22,’ the old woman answered.
‘The law says they don’t have to.’
‘What law says they don’t have to?’
‘Catch–22.’
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As for the sickos with kiddie porn, they're mostly on things like Limewire. I have to have all KINDS of filters up in order to make sure I don't get their filth. You can't even get regular porn now a days! :(
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A catch?
Sure, catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy, so I can't ground them.
Okay, let me see if I got this straight. In order to be grounded I've got to be crazy, and I must be crazy to keep flying missions. But, if I ask to be grounded that means I'm not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying.
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too bad
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Next thing you know...
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This could be used by child pornographers and/or t
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Damn you, fifty character limit!!! ;)
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Thep problem everyone has here is they keep arguing about rights and such. Um, the only thing tha matters here is money. The RIAA/MPAA etc. have lots of it, therefore they can influence and buy whatever justice they want.
If you don't like that, well you should probably join the mormons or something. Because unfortunately the society we live in is run but corrupt cunts who steal money from the public left, right and centre. But not only do they do that, they actually convince the average Joe that what they do is right and just and that everyone else is evil.
I think one day we'll all worship the CEO of one of these corporations as our God.
Pathetic....
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So it seems possible that the Swedish govt is targeting Bayimg, rather than Pirate Bay.
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PirateBay doesn't 'host' anything. There is no server somewhere in Sweden with all of this content on one box, it's just a search engine.
As stated in the article; this is no different then every other search engine on the web Except that TPB has pissed off the *IAA therefore they must be stopped.
Lovely.
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Not just a search engine
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Heck, maybe they can develop technology that causes the CD/DVD to decay after a single use.
That's Entertainment Industry innovation at work!
I certainly don't agree with child porn, but they could care less about that, it's just another way to try and sustain the 'proper' method of buying content.
Create a service that charges a fair price for Music and Video and keep a database so that a customer can re-download any content they have ever purchased at a later date? LOL, what kind of good would that do???
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Think about it
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Not afraid to speak out
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illegal
*If you don't like that, well you should probably join the mormons or something. Because unfortunately the society we live in is run but corrupt cunts who steal money from the public left, right and centre.*
Wll, our society hasn't been like this forever. Believing that there is nothing to do but to accept it as it is now is a very dangerous idea. It is a "learned" idea, it can be changed. It is not written in stone. Bigger empires have fallen before. F'ck them!
There is a need for a massive boicot. I really need no movies--they're usually crap anyway, specially those made by big *IAA friends. I haven't bought music in a long time. And I haven't downloaded any, either. Not even legal, free, music. I just listen to my music again and again, or don't listen to any. F'ck them.
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Not CP
just go to google images and type in preteen models or teen models and take a look at those sites, they are what people are downloading without paying for on TB.
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pedos get it blacklisted, al qaeda gets it bombed...
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