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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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"the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?
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Why? We have you doing it for nothing, freetard.
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Not THAT is funny!
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Just to be clear, I DID Google for it: humorous or inept usage only.
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Did you mean: "technologically" '
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Re: Just to be clear, I DID Google for it: humorous or inept usage only.
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And I'm sure...
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And I'm sure...
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Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?
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Re: "the-technoligically-clueless" -- Those who can't spell?
That might help a Hogwarts student - but I think Mike would require a spelling checker.
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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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C'mon Masnick, you know you want to.
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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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But wait...
Did someone lie to me?
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Ever heard of RSS? ;-)
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