Danish Block Of The Pirate Bay Leads To Even More Traffic
from the nice-publicity-stunt,-IFPI dept
We've noted in the past that every time the RIAA or the IFPI scores a "significant blow" against an operation they accuse of piracy, it only seems to drive more attention to those sites. That appears to be happening once again. Since the IFPI convinced a Danish court to block users from accessing the Pirate Bay, traffic from Denmark to the Pirate Bay has actually increased, thanks mainly to the news coverage of the story. So, for such a significant blow, it appears that all the IFPI has succeeded in doing is providing free advertising for the Pirate Bay.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: denmark, ifpi, pirate bay, significant blow, streisand effect
Companies: ifpi, pirate bay, tele2
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LOLer
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what a bunch of morons....there's no such thing as bad publicity....
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Danish Block Leads to More Traffic
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Funny
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Don't be too Excited about it ...
That said I hope Denmark recognizes the error they made and reverse that decision, but with all the money the IFPI, RIAA, and whoever else are throwing at government officials I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
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But I do agree that this "victory" they are claiming is just another false one. I made an analogy about this before, they are trying to stop a meteor shower with shotguns.
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Re: Don't be too Excited about it ...
So while the IFPI, RIAA, et al go beating their chests in exuberance, more and more people will be finding and using the sites to which they've "dealt significant blows."
Mike's got it right -- if these groups want to make any headway they've got to stop these fruitless attempts that always, always backfire. And stop suing their customers, too -- who would have thought you need to explain that to someone.
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DNS-blocking
/Mike
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Blocking
Blocking DNS? Change your DNS configuration.
Firewall rule to prevent the ports? Change ports/use proxy
Blocking based on content? Change encryption/signature.
Come ON. They're trying to fight the SAME battle as others tryed agains viruses... and viruses are still winning after all those years. As for the "precedent", do you really think that will change anything? Other countries will point out: "yea they tryed.. and FAILED! So why should I put my money in a useless fight?"
That IS the precedent. The more they try, the more other ISPs/Countries will just see that you can't fight piracy, you must COMPETE piracy. Just watch at the beginning of the lat century, when they tried to prohibit alcohol... we see what legislation can do against what customers want.
RIAA, IFPI, MPAA and law makers forget something very basic about life: the laws are good ONLY if the people obey. You can make as much law as you want, if nobody follow them, it's a waste. And since the beginning of time, governement used fear of repression to force people to obey law they didn't want. Now, with Internet, it's way easier to disobey without getting caught: remove fear and you see the crappy laws fail.
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Who Are They Kidding?
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Malformed html
Seriously, they cannot win. And who suggested that isp's stop people at the DNS level? As if there weren't enough people using OpenDNS already. Well, at least this will educate users about how to manually set DNS.
I have a line in my /etc/network/interfaces file which looks like:
dns-nameservers 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
Something to that effect. I might have them on separate lines. Anyway, keeps me away from clogging my isp's nameservers. OpenDNS must be getting hit up pretty hard, though.
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lol
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the real pirates
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I want a danish
If you're a drudge fan: drudgetracker.com
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Brilliant!
Quote of the year!
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Hillarious
...hang on just a moment, what was this story about?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah!
...sorry, couldn't help myself there.
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English language news site in Pirate Bay
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MAKE PEACE-DESTROY DENMARK!
Let’s stop whole Denmark !
Thank Al qAEDA! cartoonists are screwed-
danes = nazi
You fucking danes are a bunch of racist-
stop danmark
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Denmark is shit.
stop danmark -
luderland=død
SUPPORT al - q AEDA!
FOREVER AGAINST DENMARK AND DANES-
FUCK YOU DANISH NAZI PIGS!
LET’S STOP DENMARK!
fuck you denmark , fuck you jyllands posten , fuck to all who support denmark.
alle hader danmark,
We all hate Denmark!
;)
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Re: MAKE PEACE-DESTROY DENMARK!
"FUCK U DANES" and "DIE IN HELL!!!" isn't seem very peaceful.
By the sound of it, you are the sort of false Muslim (like the Al-q Adea) that hijacks the Prophets' name to serve your own unholy purposes. That is precisely what the most hated cartoon (the bomb-in-turban one) protested against.
Do you want a better world, or are you just happy to be angry?
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