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Re:Record Labels go to High Court to Force More ISPs to Bloc... by louischatriot on Saturday December 08, 2012 @12:36PM (#4892131)
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).
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Re:Record Labels go to High Court to Force More ISPs to Bloc... by nicholasjarnold on Saturday December 08, 2012 @01:22PM (#4892270)
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.

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Re:Record Labels go to High Court to Force More ISPs to Bloc... by jakerocheleau on Saturday December 08, 2012 @05:37PM (#4892940)
Couldn't agree more.
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