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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out_of_the_blue, Oct 10th, 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), Oct 10th, 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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Joel, Oct 10th, 2011 @ 3:05pm

Not THAT is funny!
Good dig.

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out_of_the_blue, Oct 10th, 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, Oct 10th, 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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Anonymous Coward, Oct 10th, 2011 @ 3:17pm

Re: Re: Just to be clear, I DID Google for it: humorous or inept usage only.
(but now I'm just being technical ;)

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Jay (profile), Oct 10th, 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), Oct 10th, 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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MrWilson, Oct 10th, 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), Oct 10th, 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), Oct 10th, 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, Oct 10th, 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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Someantimalwareguy (profile), Oct 10th, 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, Oct 10th, 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), Oct 10th, 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), Oct 10th, 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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Anonymous Coward, Oct 10th, 2011 @ 5:53pm

Re: Re:
I love how you clowns think people would have to be "paid" to post obvious truths here... LOL. Too funny.

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Anonymous Coward, Oct 10th, 2011 @ 5:56pm

Re: Re: Re:
I agree copyright is just an obsolete fragment from the age of empires.

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

But wait...
I thought the party was over?

Did someone lie to me?

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Anonymous Coward, Oct 10th, 2011 @ 6:31pm

Re: Re: Re:
No, just the people who do nothing but repeat the latest industry talking points over and over.

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Jay (profile), Oct 10th, 2011 @ 9:48pm

Re: Re: Re: Re:
But there was no broadbrush, just FUD in his statement.

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The eejit (profile), Oct 10th, 2011 @ 11:23pm

Re: Re: Re:
But what if it's not the truth to most people, given past experiences? Maybe you should have a pirate flag for stealing from the3 public! YARR, me lad! I be thievin' from yer public to swell me own coffers!

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WysiWyg (profile), Oct 11th, 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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Anonymous Coward, Oct 12th, 2011 @ 7:56am

Re: Re: Re:
I love how you clown think you're posting anything resembling the truth here... LOL. Too funny.

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Niall (profile), Oct 12th, 2011 @ 9:13am

Re: Re: Re:
Is that like how you ACs all accuse people who dissent with you (especially who are ACs themselves) of being 'paid employees/astroturfers' of 'the Maz/nick/burglar/FUDMeister'?

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Belgian Court Orders Blocking Of The Wrong PirateBay Domain