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The Pirate Bay has its supporters, but ISPs are expected to follow Virgin Media and block the site in the coming weeks. Photograph: Fredrik Persson/AFP/Getty Images
The filesharing website The Pirate Bay has been blocked to millions of UK internet users following a high court ruling earlier this week.
Customers of the country's second-biggest internet service provider (ISP), Virgin Media, were on Wednesday denied access to site. Other internet providers, including BT and Sky, are expected to follow suit within weeks.
Britain's ISPs were on Monday ordered to block access to the The Pirate Bay after the court ruled that it flouted copyright laws.
Virgin Media provides internet access to about 4.1 million cable customers in the UK, and more users who opt for its high-speed fibre-optic service. It has 21.5% of the market share, behind BT with 27.5%.
Customers for Virgin Media's rivals said they could still access the filesharing website on Wednesday afternoon.
The provider said in a statement: "Virgin Media has received an order from the courts requiring it to prevent access to The Pirate Bay in order to help protect against copyright infringement.
"As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media complies with court orders addressed to the company but strongly believes that changing consumer behaviour to tackle copyright infringement also needs compelling legal alternatives, such as our agreement with Spotify, to give consumers access to great content at the right price."
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they are also planning a Opt-In system for *cough*porn*cough* that means its filtered in the UK for everyone by default and you can tell your ISP to unfilter it if you so desire
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Tom Williamson wrote ...
they are also planning a Opt-In system for *cough*porn*cough* that means its filtered in the UK for everyone by default and you can tell your ISP to unfilter it if you so desire
Truth is, its very difficult to stop porn (or racist/extreme political/etc. stuff) unless you block TOR etc., tunnelling and proxies. Even if you block those, people will come up with something else...
I once directly asked a VERY (very very) senior UK intelligence officer what effect the wide availability of decent cryptographic systems to hoi polloi was having on the efficacy of the security services...
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Tom Williamson wrote ...
they are also planning a Opt-In system for *cough*porn*cough* that means its filtered in the UK for everyone by default and you can tell your ISP to unfilter it if you so desire
When does it all stop, what is to stop them going too far with censoring the internet. (China, anyone?).
Imagine if they blocked 4hv for "harmful content".
I can still access TPB via Sky broadband as of Saturday, although I have started using private trackers now.
My school blocked an image of a horseshoe as porn, but they didn't mark this site as "Weapons." Like, if a website is thought to be the slightest bit dangerous, they'll block it. Apparently they don't think a million volts and super deadly current and caps which hold a deadly amount of energy that you can't always tell if they are charged or not is not the slightest bit dangerous. I go on this site during my computer class very often. If the school didn't block this with their idiotic blocking systems, I doubt they would block this site.
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I seriously do wonder how bad things can get, given that the Olympics are coming up. Blocking sites "just in case" can lead to a permanent block because someone noticed say a single reference to banned chemicals, HERF/etc. Look at what happened to that chemistry forum, basically got shut down and rumour has it LPF are next if there are any more planes versus lasers incidents in the UK.
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HighVoltageChick wrote ...
My school blocked an image of a horseshoe as porn, but they didn't mark this site as "Weapons." Like, if a website is thought to be the slightest bit dangerous, they'll block it. Apparently they don't think a million volts and super deadly current and caps which hold a deadly amount of energy that you can't always tell if they are charged or not is not the slightest bit dangerous. I go on this site during my computer class very often. If the school didn't block this with their idiotic blocking systems, I doubt they would block this site.
The difference here is that you are talking about a school blocking access to websites, which they are well within their rights to block. Sure its annoying but it is mainly there to stop students from wasting time whilst using computers in classes, even if they do fail to do so in many cases.
What the thread is about is a whole country restricting web access becuase a few big media/entertainment corporations want it to. If I want to risk it and download a film without paying then that is my decision, not the government's.
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