Did none of these people notice all the mirrors that popped up with in days of the last attempt to block TPB? All that happened was that TPB's database of torrents got spread around the net even more.

Thing is, they must know this. So, I have to think that more is at play and something nasty is waiting in the wings. What? I have no idea what so ever. But while its easy to mock the record industry, etc, they are really not stupid people. They must be up to something, IMHO.

The copyright industries want to expand their rentier state to exert control at the network level. They want veto power over the presence of any copyrighted material on the internet. The only way to prevent this is to legalize a fundamental right to link.

Yes, that would be good. But the issue is that they CAN exert control - the government that is, at the behest of the lobbyists of the day, even if you legalize this specific thing.

We need to move to a Freenet model where it's nearly impossible to tell what you're doing. The system isn't working until political control is irrelevant. Free access to information is too critical to let anyone control.

They aren't stupid people, but they may be stupid as an entity. Perhaps whoever makes these decisions is under pressure from management to look busy, so they pursue these largely useless measures because they're easy work.

I'm thinking let them act like retards...

makes me remember freakonomics on "cobra effect": http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/10/11/the-cobra-effect-a-ne...

this move is mostly irrelevant and costly for them and I guess it only makes they look worse in the public eye... as most people are put off by this maneuvers, it's probably a service to the 'torrentfreak crowd'(which I'd say I'm included, even tho I barely use torrents), first step for revolution is getting the people's support...

(but, of course, when they're buying politics, laws, regulations it's actually worrysome ;t)

Unfortunately (for the labels) this is completeley useless. Even if they managed to block it everywhere in the world, another torrent sharing site would appear right way (and that would be history repeating itself).

I suspect that even if this court ordered block became common and happened frequently enough to make moving sites around a pain, that the easy and cheap VPN economy would grow considerably.

I mean, even now a cheap VPS can be purchased for ~$10/month with 1+TB/month bandwidth. With a VPN connection properly configured one could easily bypass these restrictions.

No matter how you approach it, the rights holders are going to lose this battle eventually.

Couldn't agree more.

It strikes me that an ISP preparing a "test" page for a court order suggests they already anticipate the direction the court will take, an action they are content with so long as responsibility doesn't fall on them.

194.71.107.15

Who needs DNS?

In Belgium, that redirects me to http://baiedespirates.be/, which in turn is a "StopPage"

> You have been redirected to this stop page because the website you are trying to visit offers content that is considered illegal according to Belgian legislation. If you are the owner or administrator of this website and you consider to be wrongly redirected, you can report this by fax at +32(0)2/733.56.16.