The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176

Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site.

A stone to stop a river?

That aside am I missing something here, why isn't BT included?

I thought BT got covered on a previous court ruling a couple of months ago?

Anyway, I agree. This is the most hideous court ruling I've read about in recent years.

Not that I condone file sharing but if you were to do this then there are plenty of very good private member sites that negates the need to use places that are open line Pirate Bay.

In reply to a post by mixt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176

Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site.

I haven't downloaded anything from TPB for must be over a year, not because the media companies or governments bs, but because searching for somethings there wasn't nothing new,

but for the likes of some of the bbc stuff such as the eastenders omnibus it has it's uses , as they the bbc don't keep there progs on the site too long, and insist on adding their DRM to anything you download, this means after a set time it will no longer play,
what do people pay for in the license for, no need to put DRM in already broadcasted content
Block this block that culture has begun it would seem, wish someone would block them from stealing our oxygen

In reply to a post by doleawg:

A stone to stop a river?

That aside am I missing something here, why isn't BT included?

Read the article

A sixth ISP, BT, requested "a few more weeks" to consider their position on blocking the site.

Because the rights they have for material that is broadcast often means it is only licensed for a certain period of time on iPlayer. Hence the other legal methods for getting the content, where a financial transaction takes place to pay the for the licence to play for X hours.

Or put it another way, if BBC say no to DRM, then many content makers would say no to appearing in the iPlayer . As it stands some programme makers so no to even the DRM content.

TPB was good for TV programmes, but as you say, there are plenty of private sites. When the government decides to make all torrents illegal, there's always usenet.

Hey, I've just had a great idea, if the government banned the internet that would prevent a lot of breach of copyright, anyone got Mr Cameron's telephone number?

If a 60 minute show was available without DRM for £1 would you buy it?

In reply to a post by everhopeful:

TPB was good for TV programmes, but as you say, there are plenty of private sites. When the government decides to make all torrents illegal, there's always usenet.

Hey, I've just had a great idea, if the government banned the internet that would prevent a lot of breach of copyright, anyone got Mr Cameron's telephone number?

http://www.davidcameron.com/2007/06/contact-david-ca...
http://www.number10.gov.uk/contact-us/

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 30-Apr-12 18:55:43)