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(Mis)Uses of Technology

by Mike Masnick

Mon, Oct 10th 2011 2:50pm


Filed Under:
belgium, blocking, dns, technical illiteracy

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Belgian Court Orders Blocking Of The Wrong PirateBay Domain

from the the-trials-and-tribulations-of-the-technologically-clueless dept

This is fairly amusing. In the wake of a (not very amusing) ruling in Belgium that ISPs had to implement a DNS blockade of various domains associated with The Pirate Bay, some have realized that the court order failed to actually list The Pirate Bay's main site: thepiratebay.org. Instead, if you look at the details of the order, it lists out www.thepiratebay.org and a variety of other domains, but which all use www at the begining. However, TPB doesn't use www:
So obviously in defiance of that, people testing their dns servers go to the domain www.thepiratebay.org, except, thepiratebay doesn't have the www domain turned on. At one point it redirected to the main page at the url thepiratebay.org, now it doesn't probably because of negligence from the admins. What's interesting is that the court only ordered the block of the www subdomains so if an isp wants to make a fuss they should be able to avoid the penalties until a later ruling.
Of course, further showing the pointlessness of all of this is that TPB already set up an alternate domain, similar to when its faced challenges like this in the past. None of it seems to do anything to slow down TPB (in fact, it seems to help advertise it). Either way, it's yet another reminder of what happens when you have technologically illiterate judges making these kinds of decisions.
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  • identicon
    out_of_the_blue, 10 Oct 2011 @ 2:57pm

    "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?

    You've some powerful chutzpah! Get a spell-check program, college boy.

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      ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:02pm

      Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?

      Get a spell-check program, college boy.

      Why? We have you doing it for nothing, freetard.

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      MrWilson, 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:40pm

      Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?

      Ah, the old "you misspelled something and therefore your argument is wrong/stupid/et cetera" remark!

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        :Lobo Santo (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:46pm

        Re: Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?

        To be fair, out_of_the_blue didn't actually claim the argument was invalid, only that there was a misspelling.

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      Richard (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:48pm

      Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?

      Get a spell-check program, college boy.

      That might help a Hogwarts student - but I think Mike would require a spelling checker.

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      rubberpants, 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:52pm

      Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?

      Hey, look everyone! It's a troll from the copyright cartel. That's new.

      I can set my watch by you guys. Do you honestly just refresh Techdirt over and over all day long so that you can rush in here, no matter what the story is, and post something contrary?

      Maybe your problem isn't Internet boogiemen "stealing" your information, but the amount of time you spend writing misinformation for boogiemen on the Internet.

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        WysiWyg (profile), 11 Oct 2011 @ 12:35am

        Re: Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?

        "Do you honestly just refresh Techdirt over and over all day long [...]"

        Ever heard of RSS? ;-)

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    Joel, 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:05pm

    Not THAT is funny!

    Good dig.

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    out_of_the_blue, 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:07pm

    Just to be clear, I DID Google for it: humorous or inept usage only.

    The Google sez:
    ' About 16,000 results (0.54 seconds)

    Did you mean: "technologically" '

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      Anonymous Coward, 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:16pm

      Re: Just to be clear, I DID Google for it: humorous or inept usage only.

      A better choice of words could probably have been technically disinclined.

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    Jay (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:39pm

    And I'm sure...

    An ac us going to come in here to say that the Pipa will come to put a stop to piracy. From the looks of it, it's yet another attempt to curb behavior in yet another useless plan. I have less confidence that law enforcement can curb piracy than when I read the book "media piracy in emerging economies"

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    Jay (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 3:40pm

    And I'm sure...

    An ac is probably going to come in here to say that the Pipa will come to put a stop to piracy. From the looks of it, it's yet another attempt to curb behavior in yet another useless plan. I have less confidence that law enforcement can curb piracy than when I read the book "media piracy in emerging economies"

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    Someantimalwareguy (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 4:16pm

    Well...you could go for the brass ring and say the Judge is a Luddite, but a ruling made does not exactly present evidence that he is one.

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    Anonymous Coward, 10 Oct 2011 @ 4:29pm

    I wonder how long before Techdirt drops the phony pretenses and just adds a pirate flag to its masthead.

    C'mon Masnick, you know you want to.

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      That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 4:49pm

      Re:

      maybe shortly after the astroturfers all register accounts and put up icons of who they are shilling for.

      Cue the I shill for no one, I do this out of a sense of pride in the way intellectual property laws are created and managed ... *falls over laughing* sorry I can't do it with a straight face... maybe they pay you enough to do it.

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      Rich (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 5:43pm

      Re:

      As someone who invites opposing positions; could anyone suggest an alternate view blog that is at least somewhat rational? I prefer fact based opinion, not made up stats please.

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    btr1701 (profile), 10 Oct 2011 @ 6:03pm

    But wait...

    I thought the party was over?

    Did someone lie to me?

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