Since The Pirate Bay blockade (which is easily circumvented) has just been extended to all other ISPs in The Netherlands (logically, court orders fall outside net neutrality), here's a link to a landing page which automatically redirects Dutch visitors to a valid The Pirate Bay proxy, circumventing the blockade. The more resourceful among us can always alter their hosts file, add a redirect in their router software, change DNS servers (any pros and cons from people who actually do this?), and about a gazillion other things. The Dutch copyright lobby's next step? Blocking websites that detail how to circumvent the blockade. Hey Kuik, we're right here!
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2011-05-12
If there is one good reason to watch pirated movies it's BREIN, because they put these warnings you can't skip in front of dvd movies.
I honestly believe they are more of an anti-consumer organization/gang than a pro-publishers one.
They're probably the universe's answer to Robin Hood to restore balance.
Member since:2006-02-01
If you are a pirate, this is what you get: http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg
That is where using vlc to watch DVD is a good idea, to skip all that shit that prevent you to watch what you paid for.
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2005-06-29
The really funny thing (to me) is, all that effort to block websites that detail how to get around the blockade simply makes people want to circumvent it more! And on top of that, censoring websites that show basic networking steps is just a waste of time too.
Anyone who wants to go to TPB probably already has a modicum of networking ability, and it's a logical first step to attempt a proxy or DNS reroute. I was doing that on the high school library computers in 1993 with no formal training, I'm sure today's script kiddies are all over it.
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2007-12-26
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Let me correct that for the U.S.:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/10/138205/ny-ruling-distinguis...
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Net neutrality means, that no matter what kind of data is delivered to what kind of receiver it is transmitted in the same way.
This is about both the integrity of the data and the equality when it comes to the transmission.
So if one country blocks access to a website there is no equality to any of these. For Dutch people there is an inequality when it comes to transmission of certain content. In fact there is no transmission at all (which is the exact opposite of how it should be) and since there is no data there can be no integrity.
So how isn't this related to net neutrality?
Member since:2011-05-12
In The Netherlands it isn't legal to download stuff, even if it's pirated. It is illegal though to offer pirated stuff. BREIN claims that people who download also offer it for upload, but that's not relevant to this case.
What is is that's it's legal for me to download, but I'm denied access to the Pirate Bay, although I can access any other torrent site. Not only am I denied pirated stuff, but also all the legal stuff that they offer. Well, they don't actually offer anything, just torrent files that point to stuff.
So it's a bit strange that in a country that has just waived the net neutrality flag that users are denied access to a site that doesn't offer illegal stuff for download, only pointers to it, while downloading is legal anyway.
Now what extra sucks for me as an IT professional that when I'm figuring out why something doesn't work I have to take in to account that my own government is "sabotaging" the Internet.
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Have been using google public DNS servers for the past year after my ISP decided to block some URLs, (WTF? Some not even close to been a torrent site).
Pro's
Can access all web sites again.
Con's
None noticed. (Although site response can be slowish on occasion).
How long before changing DNS servers is illegal though? Twats!
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the only thing that made me move back to my ISP's dns was that Alkami and other download sites wouldn't understand which country i was in and would set me to american, so downloads were really slow as they didn't push me to a local mirror. I also noticed that updates for Windows + Mac OSX would be a lot slower probably as they use Alkami as they're backbone for updates/downloads?
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2007-11-23
Huge "WOW" ... this could not get more rediculous and contradictory!
Netherlands managed to get this net 'neutrality' bill the other day, and now it prevents one of the sites from being available in netherlands!
How-@#%$$%-crazy-is-that? apparently someone thinks we're all just a bunch of @Q#$@#%$ morons, idiots, fools, or crabs.
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2010-09-25
Apparently the judge is corrupt:
http://ark.intel.com/products/40479/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T6400...