Italy blocks The Pirate Bay
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A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block [The Pirate Bay] since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.
This time it’s Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way – so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.
We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.
We have already changed IP for the website – that makes it work for half the ISPs again. And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. And for the meanwhile – http://labaia.org works (La Baia means The Bay in Italian).
And please, everybody should also contact their ISP and tell them that this is not OK and that the ISPs should appeal. We don’t want a censored internet!
And the war starts here.
At the end of July, “Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) is on a roll, reporting a Big 4-initiated shut-down of a DirectConnect hub in Mexico City, and a BitTorrent tracker site in Italy,” p2pnet reported, continuing in Mexico, “The Sunnydale Hub had more than 1.5 terabytes of illegal content, including local and international music repertoire,” it said.
And in Italy, “Colombo-BT.org helped to make available more than 390,000 music files and 500,000 movie files, including numerous pre-release titles.”
Stay tuned.
JN
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August 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
One answer to this is right here on this site – the red text above that starts with
“Net access blocked by government restrictions?”
Blocking a website is an exercise in futility. This is one of many means to get
around such blocking.
The score – Pirate Bay: 1 Italian Government: 0
August 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am
This is the beginning of the end for The Pirate Bay, I’m glad to say.
I can’t stand getting stuff for free and want to pay for my content at whatever rate and conditions set by my Rights Holders.
August 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
^LMFAO^
you should want to pay the content creators, the rights holders are cocksucking lilliputian dictators that need to be shot.
The Pirate Bay isn’t going anywhere btw, in case you missed the last 2/3s of the article, the blocks can be gotten around.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
” This is the beginning of the end for The Pirate Bay ”
This has been said about as many times as ..” the world is going to end next week ”
It’s just a true too
AllofMp3 is still around .. just under a different name .. nice.
” I can’t stand getting stuff for free and want to pay for my content ”
That’s very kind of you.
Next Brittany Spears cd you want to buy , instead, download it from Pirate Bay, and send a check for 15.00
directly to brittany. That way, she’ll get to keep ALL of the money ( instead of about 15 cents of it ).
It worked out really well for NiN and Radiohead. Content CREATORS got paid, middlemen got shit.
That’s how it should be.
Excuse me now while I remove the hook from my mouth.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
” I can’t stand getting stuff for free and want to pay for my content at whatever rate and conditions set by my Rights Holders. ”
Dbann, can you possibly sing a different tune ?