High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs

Re:High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs by Tim-Boss on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:43AM (#3909438)

Within minutes of any major ISP implementing a "block" a few thousand people will post on facebook/twitter/blogs and websites links to the plethora of proxies/TOR tunnels/Open DNS settings and VPN's that will instantly negate any ISP level "block" (sarcastic quotes intentional).

This will cost british ISP's hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds to implement and manage, and will at best only delay any would-be knock-off-nigel 30 seconds or so while he learns about proxies et. al. and configures a browser.

Security theatre at its worst...THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!

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Re:High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs by btian on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:57AM (#3909511)

Tor is getting more and more useful. It doesn't take much to mirror TPB with magnetic links tbh

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Re:High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs by PotatoEngineer on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:16PM (#3910516)

Yes, there are plenty of ways to circumvent the block, but some of them take more technical know-how (or social links to people with that knowledge) than others. A block will definitely cut down the traffic to TPB.

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Re:High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs by fromhet on Monday April 30, 2012 @11:50AM (#3909724)

Also: any of the hundreds of other torrent sites.

Or secure file sharing protocols as oneswarm and such.

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