Soldato
sky have blocked it also I don't use it but in principle I am very annoyed.
02 and be broadband ban that website
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tbh the bay is terrible anyways private trackers are so much better. The bans on certain sites was going to happen at some point and sadly it will only get worse first will be share sites like the bay next will be alternative news sites untill gets to the point the net is like tv only get certain amount of pages what goverments and industrys want you to see.
Soldato
lol that was easy to get around.
Soldato
you are spot on , you will sign up for sky_internet, or BT_internet and view what they deem fit and to push whatever political purpose, if/when this happens i will just not bother.
cannot remember last time i download any torrents since steam/netflix etc I have no need.
offer me goods at decent prices and I will pay for it.
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Caporegime
Debatable.
But yes, Google and other search engines should remove links to aiding piracy. Naturally however this will take a lot of resources.
Not really
As I've said previously, people can do what they will. It just amuses me when people moan about sites like these being banned or taken down. No, TPB don't host the content, but they DO host the torrent links which, can be removed and blocked if they bothered to look for them
*yawn*
All they've done is block a site that allows access to copyright infringed material and people go up in arms like its going to be worse than somewhere like China, it's absolute nonsense.
Soldato
It looks like BT have blocked it now
Everytime I go on it, just says in the top left 'Error - Site Blocked'.
Everytime I go on it, just says in the top left 'Error - Site Blocked'.
Soldato
Who even uses public torrent trackers these days anyway? 
Who even uses public torrent trackers these days anyway?
Clearly lots of people do you ---redacted---
Soldato
Who even uses public torrent trackers these days anyway?
About 90% of the general public who also download every virus going in the process of doing so.
Soldato
Me. I see no reason not to. Would you like some ladders to help you step down from your horse?Who even uses public torrent trackers these days anyway?
Yet to get a virus from torrents.
Soldato
Same. Been using TPB since I first got a computer and never had a virus from there.
Permabanned
People advocating ripping off others work storming to the take moral high ground... Irony alive and kicking at OCUK...
Self regulation and restraint hasn't worked and so now the idiots that insist wholesale copyright infringement is some kind of human right have succeeded in reminding governments and businesses that a broadband connection isn't exempt from the same laws, regulations and sanctions that apply to the rest of life.
A return to walled gardens and a commercialised tiered Internet is just around the corner in large part because people couldn't exercise a little restraint and just made piracy a big enough target to make it worth while for big corporations to do something about it. Well done...
Give it 5-10 years and we'll be back to managed access through service not dissimilar to the past with either private closed communities (like the BBS scene i grew up with) or general purpose managed walled gardens like compuserve & Aol of the past.
All it will take is one success for a large company or government against an ISP and things will change. Generally ISPs are businesses with shareholders like any other with a responsibility to make a profit, not some altruistic need to provide little johnny with pirated games, music and video "because the industry is corrrupt and full of fat cats".
The ISP all you can eat flat rate model is tough to make profit with as it is with increasing infrastructure demands, being sued off the face of the earth, if litigation somewhere manages to get past an ISPs "common carrier" protection will just make it not worth the effort.
My money is on an eventual move to tiers service with basic email and slow browsing for free/minimal fee and then more and more traffic management with tiered services allowing access to "premium" services like streaming, or "gaming pack with low latency" at increased cost (under the guise of guaranteed service levels).
Using piracy as a clarion call for the freedom of the Internet and a rallying cry against censorship is possibly the least helpful way of claiming "it's the principle of the thing".
It's a shame but human nature and greed from both sides look like to be ensuring the "wild west" and anonymity of the early days of the Internet were an aberration rather than the dawning of a new era of free speech
Self regulation and restraint hasn't worked and so now the idiots that insist wholesale copyright infringement is some kind of human right have succeeded in reminding governments and businesses that a broadband connection isn't exempt from the same laws, regulations and sanctions that apply to the rest of life.
A return to walled gardens and a commercialised tiered Internet is just around the corner in large part because people couldn't exercise a little restraint and just made piracy a big enough target to make it worth while for big corporations to do something about it. Well done...
Give it 5-10 years and we'll be back to managed access through service not dissimilar to the past with either private closed communities (like the BBS scene i grew up with) or general purpose managed walled gardens like compuserve & Aol of the past.
All it will take is one success for a large company or government against an ISP and things will change. Generally ISPs are businesses with shareholders like any other with a responsibility to make a profit, not some altruistic need to provide little johnny with pirated games, music and video "because the industry is corrrupt and full of fat cats".
The ISP all you can eat flat rate model is tough to make profit with as it is with increasing infrastructure demands, being sued off the face of the earth, if litigation somewhere manages to get past an ISPs "common carrier" protection will just make it not worth the effort.
My money is on an eventual move to tiers service with basic email and slow browsing for free/minimal fee and then more and more traffic management with tiered services allowing access to "premium" services like streaming, or "gaming pack with low latency" at increased cost (under the guise of guaranteed service levels).
Using piracy as a clarion call for the freedom of the Internet and a rallying cry against censorship is possibly the least helpful way of claiming "it's the principle of the thing".
It's a shame but human nature and greed from both sides look like to be ensuring the "wild west" and anonymity of the early days of the Internet were an aberration rather than the dawning of a new era of free speech
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