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NEWS: UK High Court: Provider Must Block File-Indexing Site




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kamidai



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:02 pm Reply with quote
Well thanks for the link to the pirate site, ANN! Razz
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Failachu



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:28 pm Reply with quote
None of this is going to mean jack to anybody using a VPN (I.E. most people who have the good sense to use Usenet as opposed to a Bittorrent tracker.)
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:40 am Reply with quote
Soon after news of this court ruling became viral, declarations of plausible countermeasures against the ISP's filtering service emanated from the website in question. Though it perhaps sets a legal precedent, this case is unlikely to hinder the activities of those accustomed to internet piracy in general.
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Greboruri



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:30 pm Reply with quote
Failachu wrote:
None of this is going to mean jack to anybody using a VPN (I.E. most people who have the good sense to use Usenet as opposed to a Bittorrent tracker.)
You don't even have to do that. It's as easy as changing your DNS server.
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:35 pm Reply with quote
Holy crap.

People still use Usenet? o_0
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