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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 2:05pm

   
   

   Don't complait to Techdirt - take action now

   Write to your MP:
   
   http://www.writetothem.com/

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 2:30pm

   
   

   More importantly, at what point will they realize attempts to block content is largely futile?

    

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   inc, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 2:56pm

   
   

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   ahh yes.. an encrypted proxy or vpn should help get around this.

    

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   The infamous Joe, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 2:57pm

   
   

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   It will do a good job stopping people who wouldn't have gone anyway.

    

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   Cheese McBeese, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 3:38pm

   
   

   That's ok, I sure a lot of customers will respond by blocking the flow of their money to BT.

    

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   Zaven (profile), Apr 21st, 2009 @ 4:12pm

   
   

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   And like Mike likes to point out, bring the issue to people's attention who otherwise would not have known about piratebay at all.
   
   And to answer this question "At what point do people realize that any such demand to "block" certain types of content will overblock and harm perfectly legitimate sites and technologies?"
   - We all know that's a trick question. The day people in charge realize they need to give themselves less control is the day the sky falls and hell freezes over.

    

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   haroldr, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 4:57pm

   
   

   WTF? Are we in China?

    

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   rage, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 5:23pm

   
   

   Wouldn't these companies be better off blocking child porn rather than worry about who is using bandwidth to do this and that.

    

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   TFP, Apr 21st, 2009 @ 5:25pm

   
   

   It's their phorm

   As in, it's ok for BT to break any laws like using Phorm to spy on its users without their consent but we're going to 'protect' our users from themselves.
   
   Having said that, TPB is still accessible thru my BT broadband.

    

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    Azrael, Apr 22nd, 2009 @ 12:14am

    
    

    Actually i think that this is clearly just a way to reduce/cap bandwidth just for the mobile users. They aren't dumb, you know.

     

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    Frosty840, Apr 22nd, 2009 @ 1:36am

    
    

    Not the IWF

    While the block page apparently directs you to the IWF site, according to The Register, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/21/iwf_pirate_bay/ the IWF themselves are claiming that it's nothing to do with them, and a BT spokesperson confirms that the IWF link only directs users to documentation on a code of practice they claim to be following.
    
    I smell a lot of deliberate misdirection by the ISPs on this story.

     

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    Discounts?, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 2:26am

    
    

    Bt blocking websites

    If you came to my restaurant and paid say 50£ for dinner, but I decided I won't serve you the potatoes, because they would make you ill and this would break the law, would you still pay 50£ ?? would you be happy and come back again??

     

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