100M : The Pirate Bay is blocked

[kwikbreaks]

Looks like the BPI need to get a court order forcing all ISPs to set up DDoS attacks.... (well at least they apparently work). The proxy script I set up and anonymouse are both still giving me timeouts but the Pirate Party one is working again - at least I just got to the home page anyway.

[zer0]

Originally Posted by martyh

still no direct rout though

obviously since its "blocked" until the court order is overturned

An announcement on their forum says it's still under a DDOS attack ,rumor is it's anonymous ,possibly in retaliation for TPB's remarks about them the other week

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Originally Posted by zer0

obviously since its "blocked" until the court order is overturned

not in BT land it's not

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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

Looks like the BPI need to get a court order forcing all ISPs to set up DDoS attacks.... (well at least they apparently work).

[zer0]

Originally Posted by martyh

An announcement on their forum says it's still under a DDOS attack ,rumor is it's anonymous ,possibly in retaliation for TPB's remarks about them the other week

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not in BT land it's not

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because they appealed the ruling

Originally Posted by zer0

because they appealed the ruling

no they asked for more time to come to a better arrangement ,their boffins probably realised that the block VM are using doesn't work so are going for a more effective way

Originally Posted by zer0

because they appealed the ruling

No, they didn't - they were granted more time to 'consider their position'....

Link

Although BT, Britain's biggest ISP, doesn't fall under the scope of the verdict, it*also received a request to block the Pirate Bay following the court order. BT states it needs time to consider their*position on blocking The Pirate Bay.*

[kwikbreaks]

ISPs are stuck between a rock and a hard place IMO.

Looking wider than the pointless ban on one tracker index site which a couple of minutes on google will show ways around, if there are eventually ways devised to block P2P activities then the reason half their customers bother with anything beyond the bare minimum package pretty much evaporate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18095370

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
The site has been largely inaccessible for the last 24 hours, and the service is intermittent in the UK.
The Pirate Bay has confirmed the attack on its Facebook page, saying that it did not know who was behind it, although it "had its suspicions".

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18095370

Funny how that story is a news story yet it doesn't actually contain any verifiable facts, just rumours that are floating around the web. It basically looks like they threw it together just to have some 'news' about the pirate bay in their technology section.

[qasdfdsaq]

Interesting way to deal with a DDoS - null route your entire ISP...

[_wtf_]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Interesting way to deal with a DDoS - null route your entire ISP...

Wikileaks has also been under a 'DDoS' attcak for the last couple of days.

Perhaps 'someone' is trying out some new tools

[AdamD]

Another thing I don't understand about this whole situation is with regards to sharing music.

Let's say for instance I use piratebay to download and listen to Linkin Park's "In the end", which happens to be a song I like.

If I share that, through bittorrent, I'm apparently committing a crime, right? I'm violating someone's copyright, could face a heavy fine and someone loses money as a result (blah blah)

But, that same song is available, for free, on youtube, via Warner bros' official youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU&feature=plcp

It's had, 39,580,982 views.

By watching that video/song, it's downloaded to my PC in a temporary area, thus, I now have a copy for playback whenever I want to, so Warner bros has lost a sale.So I have to wonder, what the hell is the point of going after people for "sharing" songs which are already shared on places like youtube?

[rogerdraig]

they should learn to treat it like the old pirate radio in that it should help sell not be seen as taking sales

those who download buy more than those who dont on the whole


http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009...buy-more-music
http://boingboing.net/2009/11/01/hea...al-downlo.html

though be fair the other side think if we stopped down loading we would all go buy 200 more dvds a year lol

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...per-year.shtml

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Another thing I don't understand about this whole situation is with regards to sharing music.

Let's say for instance I use piratebay to download and listen to Linkin Park's "In the end", which happens to be a song I like.

If I share that, through bittorrent, I'm apparently committing a crime, right? I'm violating someone's copyright, could face a heavy fine and someone loses money as a result (blah blah)

But, that same song is available, for free, on youtube, via Warner bros' official youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU&feature=plcp

It's had, 39,580,982 views.


By watching that video/song, it's downloaded to my PC in a temporary area, thus, I now have a copy for playback whenever I want to, so Warner bros has lost a sale.So I have to wonder, what the hell is the point of going after people for "sharing" songs which are already shared on places like youtube?

That song has adverts. As such, Warner are getting money each time you play it. They get nothing from torrents.

[AdamD]

Hmm, I've never seen an advert on youtube, I wonder if adblock prevents ads loading in the videos? heh