Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK 195
hypnosec writes "The movie industry in the UK is having a ball, as far as blocking of sites allegedly involved in piracy is concerned, as courts have asked UK ISPs to enforce a blockade on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire and others. Getting a torrent or steaming site blocked in the UK is a mere paperwork formality, since ISPs have completely stopped defending against these orders. As it stands, a total of 33 sites have been blocked in the UK, including The Pirate Bay, BitSnoop, ExtraTorrent, Torrentz, 1337x, Fenopy, H33T, KickAssTorrents, among others."
What about Google (Score:4, Interesting)
They've started blocking searches that can lead to kiddie porn, and thus accepted the linkage.
The next step in that is mandatory reporting of any IP addresses that does those forbidden searches. Having accepted the searches are bad, it follows that surveillance of this badness will be the next step. Thus they've accepted the surveillance principle.
Copyright lobby already wants Google to block all copyright infringements from search results. (and read the New Zealand Kim Dotcom indictment, it talks about 'selectors being tasked' i.e. PRISM talk, meaning spooks are now copyright enforcers).
Likewise ISPs blocked these torrent search engines as being equivalent to torrents and in turn equivalent to the copyright infringement, thus it follows that they'll keep being asked to block ever more tangential stuff. For example, sites that list torrent search engines. Sites that discuss torrent search engines. VPN sites, and so on.
Re:Giving up the essential for the trivial (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, to be fair, the torrent sites only exist because apparently some people can't survive just fine without entertainment.
Re:building a market. (Score:2, Interesting)
It might be done through something like IRC, and the various providers will check to see who's closest to the end user and get a link close to them.
Yes, XDCC and fserve bots work fine thanks.
Many IRC networks are dedicated to filesharing: http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?chat=xdcc
It's trivial to find XDCC results in google, just append xdcc -torrent to your search.
Re:nothing about Google everything about Monarchs (Score:5, Interesting)
distribution of stolen American property
That is not true in any way, shape, or form. The AC has a really damn good point that you can't simply negate by saying it's within the NSA's job description.
Having law enforcement involved in simply copyright disputes is highly concerning. The NSA being involved brings it to a level or ridiculousness akin to the President going door to door collecting unpaid dues for the paper boy. "How far off the mark have we gone". Indeed.
No such thing as theft involved and you're continuing to perpetuate a myth that is quite dangerous to freedom and our society. Specifically, that ideas and their expressions can be owned, and that by not complying with the explicit wishes of the owner you are engaged in acts of "theft".
I'll be real simple here. A copyright in of itself is just a container for legal entitlements (aka rights) granted by the people to the creator. Only the creator can ever exercise those rights. It's called legal standing. To "steal" the "property" one must in fact steal the legal standing. That can be only done with fraud and contracts negotiated under duress with the creator. Not from some pimple faced teenager on bit torrent. All that ever happens is copyright infringement . This, the vast majority of the time, involves cases that belong in civil courts. Only the mass duplication, distribution, and profit over copyrighted works is worth the intervention by law enforcement for society's behalf.
What part of copyright law being used the way it's now being used doesn't scare the crap out of you?
- Weak, and often proven absolutely falsified and incorrect, reports and statistics attempting to show direct fiscal damage of epic proportions to justify changes in the law - DMCA, copyright enforcement, CISPA, treaties and negotiations with other countries being examples.
- The creation of laws curtailing our freedoms in ways that were never agreed upon by society at large. Who the fuck thinks they can tell us we can't skip over commercials
with technology in our own homes? How dare they tell me there are Prohibited User Operations on my DVD player? It's my fucking DVD player, my fucking DVD, my fucking money that left MY wallet. Yet, they have the unmitigated gall to stand in my living room by proxy through technology paid for with my money telling me what to do in my own home. Make a televised skit of that shit and see how many people you can get to agree with you to let that happen.
- The dramatic loss of privacy and anonymity through the unprecedented and largely unchecked grabs for mass surveillance capabilities. All of it for.... yep.... terrorists. Yet, not being used against a single terrorist. More and more they use these tools to come to the aid of a single side in a copyright dispute and in some notable cases, arrest and detain people only interested in actions that were damn well known to be fair use .
You bet your ass I'm just as concerned as the AC is about a US intelligence agency being used unfairly in a civil dispute. It may not affect you directly now, but you just wait, keep that line of thinking up and you will have the government you deserve. Then after some time, you will have the country you deserve.
One bereft off a middle class anymore. Just the ruling elites and the slaves. A country run with the abhorrent idea that an idea and expression can be owned forever and that all must prostrate themselves before the elites for the right to use advanced technologies. One where no single person, or group of persons, in a garage could ever hope to build a multi-billion dollar company from nothing since the barrier to entries are so damn high. How could they be low? Over a half million patents in a smart phone these days. Ridiculous software patents will run a muck in your country inhibiting, or outright preventing, innovation by the "small guys". You already have your "who files first" bullshit in the USPTO. That har