Year of the storm

#1

Post by nreece » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 11:02 AM UTC

Re: Year of the storm

#2

Post by iwwr » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 11:47 AM UTC

TPB have made themselves a kind of bastion against the copyright rentseekers by being a visible and hard to quash target. The kind of money and effort wasted against them is impressive.

Of course, what this verdict establishes is a precedent for hashes having the same status as the original copyrighted content.

Re: Year of the storm

#3

Post by mahrain » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 11:49 AM UTC

iwwr wrote: post #2

TPB have made themselves a kind of bastion against the copyright rentseekers by being a visible and hard to quash target. The kind of money and effort wasted against them is impressive. Of course, what this verdict establishes is a precedent for hashes having the same status as the original copyrighted content.

Similarly, the issue has shifted from being about copyrights to being a threat to civil liberties.

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by somestuff » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 11:56 AM UTC

iwwr wrote: post #2

TPB have made themselves a kind of bastion against the copyright rentseekers by being a visible and hard to quash target. The kind of money and effort wasted against them is impressive. Of course, what this verdict establishes is a precedent for hashes having the same status as the original copyrighted content.

To burnt timber with the corporations and their enablers who press so hard to suck each of us all of our life's potential while wielding the profits as a weapon against those they dislike. This includes the justice system and their precedents.

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by icebraining » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 11:56 AM UTC

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Signed;

The Pirate Bay Crew - Always when needed.

http://thepiratebay.se/blog/172

EDIT: This is an _old_ post, not current.

Re: Year of the storm

#6

Post by asm89 » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:00 PM UTC

Screenshot for the dutch people that can't visit TPB anymore..: http://i.imgur.com/VVBiJ.png

Re: Year of the storm

#7

Post by somestuff » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:06 PM UTC

asm89 wrote: post #6

Screenshot for the dutch people that can't visit TPB anymore..: http://i.imgur.com/VVBiJ.png

Paste of it for the dutch visually impaired that can't visit TPB anymore..: http://pastebin.com/WeKPQUK6

edit: dem words aint right. :)

Re: Year of the storm

#8

Post by rickmb » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:25 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #5

We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fal…

Thank you for the copy-paste.

The fact that I now have to rely on others to republish this information because as of today it is being censored for me makes me very, very sad.

I'm 45 years old, I was born and raised in the "free world", and this is the first time in my life I am confronted with the painful reality of censorship.

Regardless of what one might think of the Pirate Bay, this feels so very, very wrong.

Re: Year of the storm

#9

Post by microtonal » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:30 PM UTC

It is sad, but I cannot read this blog post. The Dutch equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA, named Brein, sued two of the major Dutch ISPs for not blocking access to The Pirate Bay. Brein won the court case, and the judge required these ISPs to block The Pirate Bay starting yesterday.

Now I am met with this when visiting thepiratebay.se:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/blokkade.png/

Internet censorship is now real in The Netherlands

Re: Year of the storm

#10

Post by losethos » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:32 PM UTC

In other news, unemployed black teenage moms support more welfare.

God says... 2:18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

2:19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

2:20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.

2:21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour.

But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.