High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

TamDenholm wrote: post #2

Does anyone know when this comes into effect? Also, does it only affect the ISP's mentioned in the article or ALL ISP's? Guess i'll just have to use a TPB mirror from now on then...

Or VPN through a server located outside the UK.

As far as I know this is dealt with on a case-by-case basis (i.e. just these ISPs and just TPB) because it's a civil matter - the govt would need to make a new law to force all ISPs to block The Pirate Bay and similar websites.

Re: High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

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Post by TomGullen » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 2:39 PM UTC

It doesn't particularly concern me that this particular website is being blocked, as it's purpose is pretty obvious. Blocking it is laughably futile but it does send a clear message out.

What does concern me though is that this is a foot in the door for the government to block other websites they object to in the future.

Re: High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

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Post by rmc » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 2:39 PM UTC

anons2011 wrote: post #3

Are we trying to emulate China or Iran? Obviously a block like this for any tech-savvy person is absolutely meaningless.

The UK has also censored Wikipedia in the past.

Re: High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

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Post by monsterix » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 2:40 PM UTC

debacle wrote: post #5

Clearly this will stop piracy.

Well what do we have here? A tag. :)