Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

So, The Pirate Bay has now been blocked by most UK ISPs.

Its nice to see the Government/Judges are working to protect us from ourselves.

Its not like its a bad thing, after all its just those people illegally downloading films, music and porn, right?

What if I put it this way, paraphrasing a German Pastor from the 1940's


http://www.chaoscrypt.com/pics/Pirate.jpg

So which websites will it be next?

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

yeah, tricky one this.

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

I dislike the blocking of pirate bay BUT if the police closed down a shop in your town that was selling heroin would you complain?

We either believe in the law or morality, morality is dependent on the individual, the law on the group.

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

Oh no!! they've closed the Heroine shop!! :(

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

SK, I don't quite understand how it works - if pirate bay has been blocked could they not give themselves a new domain name or something?

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

Is that where they sell female Hero's? :)

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

The pirate bay is not doing anything illegal though.

Its more like a directory telling you where you could get the heroin.

And its not like downloading kills anyone, although the loss of sales probably means that bands/actors have less money to buy heroin with.

Its not illegal to download, its the uploading part that is illegal.

Let the Copyright Mafia get their acts in gear, get a new business model that works and move on.

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

LOL, no these

http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/i...rge/CY0112.jpg

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

Strange thing is I work in a secondary school as a computer technician and I was reading up that Virgin and Sky have blocked Pirate Bay so I was curious and tried to get on Pirate Bay on our Admin Server..

I got right in.
God knows what the students have been downloading with torrents without us knowing for all these years.
Oops!

Re: Going down with the ship... (Censorship in the UK)
 

Maybe the activists can help find a solution that prevents people copying and distributing content illegally. I dont agree with general censorship, but then I dont agree with facilitating illegal file sharing either.