UK ISPs Unblock Pirate Bay’s Artist Promos After Protests

Ernesto
December 5, 2012
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On Sunday, TorrentFreak broke the news that several UK Internet providers were blocking access to The Promo Bay, The Pirate Bay’s perfectly legal promotion platform for independent artists. After a storm of protest the local music industry group BPI has now instructed the ISPs to unblock the site. While the BPI should be applauded for their move, the incident raises the question whether a private industry group should be in control of an Internet blocklist to begin with.

block Last week we reported on the launch of The Promo Bay, an artist promotion initiative supported by The Pirate Bay crew.

The website is entirely dedicated to promoting the work of independent musicians, filmmakers and other content creators. Through The Promo Bay these artists get to showcase their work to an audience of hundreds and thousands of people at no cost.

A great initiative, but unfortunately many UK artists were unable to submit their content after the site was blocked due its affiliation with The Pirate Bay.

In a response to this news a petition was started by The Promo Bay asking the UK’s Internet providers to reconsider their decision. In addition, the UK’s Open Rights Group (ORG) and Virgin asked the local music industry group BPI to review the blockade.

Today these efforts paid off.

Responding to ORG’s inquiry the BPI said that they instructed ISPs to lift the block. The group explained that the Promo Bay domain was blocked as part of the UK High Court decision earlier this year because it previously linked to the Pirate Bay website.

While this is great news for the Promo Bay and the many artists who want to promote their work through the Pirate Bay, it also raises same concerns. For example, why should a music industry group be in control of an Internet blocking list?

ORG agrees that the incident is worrisome and the group is calling for more transparency and oversight.

“The incident is rather revealing: it firstly shows that there is a significant need for greater transparency about the nature of blocking injunctions. Secondly, it shows that the BPI have been given a great deal of discretion over what may be blocked.”

“Neither ISPs nor the BPI seem keen to disclose what is on the list. It is effectively secret,” ORG adds.

The Pirate Bay crew is happy to see the Promo Bay unblocked, but believes the BPI can do even more.

“It’s great that our friends from the BPI are so kind to use their God-like powers to get the Promo Bay off the blocklist. Apparently they realize how important it is for artists to be able to get featured on The Pirate Bay frontpage,” Pirate Bay’s Winston told TorrentFreak.

“Too bad these artist are not able to see their own promotions though, because our main page is still censored,” he adds.

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https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema

I think the world doesn’t understand yet that a consumer opinion is just as if not more important than a business opinion. The world has become too commercialized and prioritizes business over private rights, as especially in these times no one wants to touch them for their value to the economy.
- Anonymous
  
  The MAFIAA are going to be watching this very closely, as it completely eliminates them from the supply chain and beyond their control.
  
  We wary of their games and dirty tricks. It’s what they do; scum of the Earth.
  
  The Promo Bay is the future!
  - JordanKratz
    
    Yes you are right !
    This type of Site will enable Artists to put out their stuff and never have to deal with any MAFIAA A-Holes.
    Soon they will go down ! Within one Generation they will end up with very little.All the young folks growing up and doing their Art are very aware of Computers and they are learning more of why they should never deal with MAFIAA.
    
    Only Traitors Sign With MAFIAA !
    - Schwartz T
      
      Remember hows UK – it is father and mother of USA – FUCK THEM both they only know to steal and kill others to get money – remember whos invade others and make them ” colony” whos enslave others ? UK was first and after USA an ex colony of UK , so people what to expect from them , do you think they changed ? do you think they care about people ? NO they dont they just adapt to modern days and develop new forms to enslave and make profit – corporations , organizations , manipulation ,many lies and excuses to take people rights , to keep dirty monopoly to be owners of this world
      They doesnt care about rights ,about laws or anything becouse they are beyound , they make laws , people must wake up (maybe is too late) stand up and fight against them on streets NOT online , just an real revolution on streets will change something not online revolution ,internet it is bullshit for they , in one day they can get total control of net and anyway petitions (online or not) is jokes for they ,so it is an ilusion to think will change the system just standing in front of your pc and give stupid likes , or making petitions etc , just real protests on streets with enough violence have chance to change something from this dirty system full dominated by greed manipulation consumerism
    - Andrew Lee
      
      They’re not traitors lol they just never had much of a choice till recently. In the past they had the options of going with the scumbags or getting a normal job. That’s not the case anymore and within 10 the fight is going to explode and we’re going to win.
      Sure some billionaires bank accounts will be casualties of war but honesty I don’t think anyone cares. I know I don’t and I think they deserve to go bankrupt for their crimes against freedom.
      If it were up to me they would be going to prison for a very long time. They’ve attacked everything the United States was founded on with zero regard for the best interest of our people and our neighbors alike.
      They’re using the rest of the world as testing grounds for the future and it will not go unpunished.
      
      Other than the traitor part you’re very right.
    - http://twitter.com/DrewKate2 DrewKate
      
      as Jeffery replied I didnt know that a mom can get paid $6139 in 1 month on the network.
    - http://twitter.com/DrewKate2 DrewKate
      
      …..goo.gl/bXQ0n (Click on Home)
  - Andrew me
    
    I believe dotcom is doing something similar, the war against the monopolists is working , i just hope for there sakes that Hollywood is watching.
    - Kept
      
      Yes, he’s planning to launch a web where artists can show their talent.
- Anon
  
  In the United States alone, the NASP estimates that there are over 27 million shoplifters (or 1 in 11 people). An entitlement to possess merchandise with paying is clearly a consumer opinion there, right? By your logic, you don’t sound as if you are thinking very realistically.
  - Anyone
    
    shoplifting removes something
    copying does not
    
    when will you learn this simple fact?
    - Guest
      
      Anon isn’t getting paid to learn facts.
    - Guest
      
      Anon should watch this video.
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
    - random fashist
      
      does not change the fact that for both the item u copy and the item that u remove people put in their hard work and should be appropriately paid, and while its not worth paying to mafia u still should do it. If u think u’re not doing anything wrong by dling newest far cry 3 u’re gravely mistaken
    - Fredrika
      
      > “does not change the fact that for both the item u copy and the item that u remove people put in their hard work and should be appropriately paid..”
      
      On the free market the only time an entrepreneur is appropriately paid is when he manages to sell something. Do you have a problem with that fundamental aspect of how the free market works? Are you advocating communism or a planned economy?
      
      > “..and while its not worth paying to mafia u still should do it.”
      
      Why should anyone do something that isn’t worth doing?
      
      > “If u think u’re not doing anything wrong by dling newest far cry 3 u’re gravely mistaken”
      
      People who don’t share your personal subjective opinion on what’s wrong are gravely mistaken? Are you suffering from delusions of grandeur?
    - Fixya
      
      A retailer gets affected by shoplifting, while he’s not affected
      if I bought something and I decided to copy it to my friend,
      the retailer still has his products to sell it to another person.
      
      @Anon
      “Infringement is not shoplifting. It is also not going to become a prevailing ‘consumer opinion” that government embraces anytime soon, either”.
      
      You should take into account that when a government has its own interests,
      they don’t care about what its citizens have to say and I don’t need to repeat
      to whom the US government loves to give benefits.
  - joexxx
    
    Are you brain dead? What does shoplifting have to do with the article?
    - Anon
      
      I was indicating that a fair percentage of consumers, about 11%, continue to feel shoplifting is their “consumer opinion” (with some sense of entitlement to it) but we do not acquiesce to crap like that either.
      
      Infringement is not shoplifting. It is also not going to become a prevailing ‘consumer opinion” that government embraces anytime soon, either.
    - Anyone
      
      because shoplifting causes harm (the merchandise is gone), while infringement does not (the merchandise is still there)
      
      also, 1 in 11 is not 11% but 9%
    - Guest
      
      consumer |k?n?so?m?r|
      noun
      a person who purchases goods and services for personal use : [as adj. ] consumer demand.
      
      Does a shoplifter fit the description of a consumer, Anon?
      
      Your argument is moot and you are so stupid it’s actually giving me a headache. Sweet jesus, you can’t even do math(although that’s not surprising – nobody from the MAFIAA can do math).
    - ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt
      
      @Guest
      
      Thank you for that, had me laughing like crazy when i read it, lol.
      +1
  - Who
    
    again shoplifting has nothing to do with copyright infringements. Y can’t you get that?
    
    shoplifting: “Shoplifting is the theft of property”
    
    copyright infringement: “Copyright infringement means someone calming ownership of the “WORKS” of another person.
    
    the 2 don’t coexist.
    
    how ever! IF you shoplifted the works, copied it, then gave it to some one you ARE 100% guilty of “theft”. NOT the person that you gave it to. and you are NOT guilty of copyright infringement ether, UNLESS the works are claimed unlawfully. *usage/distribution is not classified under this*
    
    *the US/RIAA/MPAA has the idea of this back words, they claim that’s it’s unauthorized use/copying is subject to infringement. well if that was the case EVERYBODY would be guilty as charged*
    
    Ive have looked up some more information and according to US copyright law “over the web” it contradicts its own words.
    by what it said….the copy right holder has exclusive rights to there works and any copy’s to there works, well this would mean by that, you couldn’t use the copy’s THAT THEY SELL at all.
  - https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema
    
    Aside from the obvious “virtual goods are NOT physical goods” which everyone should already agree on by now, thieves are not consumers. There are plenty people willing to pay for something, putting in DRM and enforcing it with laws is nothing but an insult to human integrity. If you don’t believe me you should look up the hundreds of business models that have popped up by now that cope really well with this problem, e.g the Humble Indie Bundle, Bandcamp, Jamendo, Kickstarter and last but not least, The Promo Bay. Blocking such efforts because it puts YOUR model (MAFIAA) out of business isn’t just lame, it’s directly blocking efforts to do the right thing. THAT is why everyone hates the big media industries. Their clinging to their ancient (literally, they’ve been fighting against technology since the early 1800s!!) business models hurts progress. If you don’t believe me, browse torrentfreak for a bit.
- ThumbsUpThumbsDown
  
  Their “value” to the economy?
  
  Puleeeessse! We just got through spending 15 Trillion Dollars of our Pensions and Real Estate values to cover their gambling losses in our financial system.
  
  It’s about time we touched them!!
  - Plop
    
    Exactly. And what’s more, the individual creators (the millions of us in every country) are more valuable to the economy, because we pay our taxes into the system instead of funnelling them into offshore tax havens. The corporations are leeching off society, but the individual little guys are enriching it culturally and financially.
- http://www.facebook.com/terence.vandehaar Terence Van de Haar
  
  fvck the world… its not the world.. its just a few retards with golden chains around their necks! (= a hint)
  
  Hang ém i say! They too easy to lure just put a pot of gold and they swarm like flies!
Crazziee

Currently still blocked on Talk Talk.
- Guest
  
  www.
- http://twitter.com/_Sean_Seany Sean_Seany
  
  Yeah , same for me as well.
- Bumboo
  
  Looks like it just came unblocked!
  
  :D
politux

Awfully nice of them to unblock a non-infringing site.
Guest

BPI instructed the ISP’s to unblock ThePromoBay to save its own face!
gij555

It’s worked for a least a week on SKY Broadband, but you have to add www. I have always been able to connect to it.
- Plop
  
  It was blocked on Be and O2.
Guest

“The group explained that the Promo Bay domain was blocked as part of the UK High Court decision earlier this year because it previously linked to the Pirate Bay website.”

So I guess that any website that has a link to ThePirateBay is now going to be blocked by BPI by serving a court orderr!!!
- Politux
  
  Time to block Google!
  - http://twitter.com/_Sean_Seany Sean_Seany
    
    And use Bing ? yeah right…
  - cgimusic
    
    And the root DNS servers. Those bastards link to a server that links to a server that resolves the IP address of The Pirate Bay!
- Bumboo
  
  By “link” they mean it was an alt domain for TPB – type in “promobay.com” and you see The Pirate Bay (admittedly with promobay on the front page).
  
  Promobay still has a url link to TPB and it’s now unblocked.
Steve Smith

“Through The Promo Bay these artists get to showcase their work to an audience of hundreds and thousands of people at no cost.” <– the reason they blacklisted it. it cuts BPI outta the loop so they make no money off it.
- Guest
  
  They don’t blacklist myspace, bandcamp or any of the other dozens of sites where artists get to showcase their work do they? No.
  
  This was blacklisted (wrongly) “because it previously linked to the Pirate Bay website”.
  - http://www.facebook.com/alexndr.ruseski Alexndr Ruseski
    
    they cant block such sites, cause they are not infamous like PB is. that characteristic is what gives them courage to do these stupid things/blockades to PB and alike.
  - Anyone
    
    and those sites can be extorted with exorbitant fees if they want to carry the MAFIAA artists etc.
    TPB doesn’t play ball with the MAFIAA like that, so they can’t be extorted, and the MAFIAA has to bribe judges and politicians instead
McCheezits

I might petition the UK Pirate Party over this, but why don’t [The Pirate Party] just set up another reverse proxy like the one they have for TPB? ‘Unblocking’ the website, as BPI has ‘done’ is just as good as a reverse proxy if not better, but there is room for redundancy.
And no, it’s not good for a [one] private interest/concern to have authoritarian control over what should be blocked and not blocked on the internet.
- Gilles
  
  it happened probably, but that is not the point.
  companies who are in control over something like a blocking list for an entire country would block all competition to ensure that only they get trafic and sales. the fact that this is possible is whats wrong. besides there are dozzens more ways to avoid these kind of blocks anyway.
ItsTheSasquatch

Sorry, but I’m not going to “applaud” BPI for calling off their dogs. That would be like “applauding” a mugger for removing the knife from your throat–you don’t say thanks, you ****ing kill him while you have the chance.
- Dondilly
  
  BPI didn’t unblock out of kindness, they were shamed into it.
  Continuing the block would explode the myth they protect artists intefests. They protect the interests of the recording industry who explot both artists and fans.
- ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt
  
  “you don’t say thanks, you ****ing kill him while you have the chance.”
  
  Exactly.
  
  +1
Michael Alderson

Still blocked on VirginMedia =(
- Anyone
  
  it will probably take some time until the updated blocklist reaches your ISP
Guest

Gonna whine about democracy now, Nej?

We’ll be waiting.
- http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater
  
  Why should I? Promo Bay seems to be legal.
  
  But when the TPB servers are raided the next time, adding up more time in jail for the persons running it, Promo Bay may go with it. Can be hard to run it from jail as well.
  - Anyone
    
    promo bay is run by different people
    or at least the person running promo bay is known while the one(s) running TPB are not
    
    TPB just takes some candidates and promotes them on their mainpage, otherwise there is no connection
    
    and you really think after the last fiasco there will be another raid?
    - http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater
      
      “or at least the person running promo bay is known while the one(s) running TPB are not”
      
      Who’s that person?
    - Anyone
      
      an australian whose name I forgot
      you can look it up in one of the previous promobay articles
    - http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater
      
      Information on their web states that it’s run in partnership with TPB.
      
      promobay.org is registered by Fredrik Neij.
      
      Fredrik Neij has been sentenced (2012) to pay 500 000 SEK to the Swedish state for continued management of TPB.
      
      http://www.dagensjuridik.se/2012/06/fredrik-neij-deltog-i-fortsatt-drift-av-pirate-bay-tvingas-betala-vite-om-500-000-kronor
    - Fredrika
      
      > “Information on their web states that it’s run in partnership with TPB.
      
      How is that relevant? The topic was who ran it, which is different people than Pirate Bay, an considering how much you claim to know and understand, i find it hilarious that you didn’t know who ran Promo Bay.
      
      > “..promobay.org is registered by Fredrik Neij.”
      
      As is all sites that was initially hosted at PRQ. And something you really should learn is that domain registrar is something different than owner or operator of a site. A domain registrar is just that and nothing else. A domain registrar has no legal responsibility for the site or it’s operation.
      
      But you don’t seem to care to much about those facts, which you proved when you committed crimes and performed libel, through incorrectly claiming that Neij operated a site that sold fake drivers licenses, which he never did. He was domain registrar for it(just as he is for all sites that is hosted at PRQ), nothing else.
      
      Although you have openly admitted to being a notorious criminal, so i guess no one should be surprised about your regular criminal activities.
      
      > “Fredrik Neij has been sentenced to pay 500 000 SEK to the Swedish state for continued management of TPB.”
      
      Alleged continued management.
      
      > “On the contrary as can be read in the sentence in case B 7576-11 and B 7670-11 at Stockholms Tingsrätt 2012-05-07.”
      
      Incorrect, no proof can be found in those injunctions, so Anyone’s claim is fully correct. If you believe otherwise you don’t understand the concept of proof. Lack of proof proving the opposite is not proof of the alternative.
      
      But then again, you do advocate reversed burden of proof, so i understand that you reason along those lines, and you have also proved that you don’t understand what an injunction is, so of course you don’t understand what’s written in one, and what it actually means.
    - Anyone
      
      without any sort of proof, I might add
    - http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater
      
      @Anyone
      
      “without any sort of proof, I might add”
      
      On the contrary as can be read in the sentence in case B 7576-11 and B 7670-11 at Stockholms Tingsrätt 2012-05-07.
    - Anyone
      
      cliffnotes?
      
      I don’t speak any swedish
      so what did they provide as proof that he was still running it?
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      @nejtillpirater
      
      “promobay.org is registered by Fredrik Neij.”
      
      Amazing. My name and initials are all over the sales database and a number of requests made to authorities and third parties. I guess by the same logic you apply, then, I’m responsible for sales policy made in the US, Russia and Germany.
      
      Remind me. Are you the same “Nejtillpirater” who regularly claims he understands how the internet works but for some odd reason is unaware of how registering a domain name works?
      
      “Fredrik Neij has been sentenced (2012) to pay 500 000 SEK to the Swedish state for continued management of TPB.”
      
      And? Aside from doubts regarding the correctness of the verdict and whether it will be overturned it is completely irrelevant whether the initial domain registrar has or has not been sentenced for a crime.
      
      I’m curious, NTP – according to your arguments, then, any contract or signature must be considered illegal or “complicit in criminal activity” if the person drawing up the contract or making the signature is at any time convicted of unlawful behavior.
      
      Would you kindly expound on the logic behind your argument and tell us all why your no doubt “factual” and “relevant” claims on how the law should operate in fact does not make the law operate in that way?
  - Fredrika
    
    > “But when the TPB servers are raided the next time..”
    
    Can you give us an estimate? You’ve been saying it will happen for several years now, but nothing happens..
    
    > “..adding up more time in jail for the persons running it..”
    
    Since it’s fully legal to operate unmoderated torrent sites, especially in the country where it currently resides, why would there be any jail? That makes no sense.
    
    > “..Promo Bay may go with it.”
    
    Just as Pirate Bay went the last time it was raided?
    
    > “Can be hard to run it from jail as well.”
    
    Yeah, because if there is anything history has taught us, it is that when one person is jailed no one else performs the same offence any more.
  - markh
    
    you are so stupid
    - http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater
      
      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ad+hominem
  - Guest
    
    Why shouldn’t you? You’ve been whining how it should be taken down because “TPB! TPB makes my dick sad!”
    
    For all the whining about democracy you sure take a nosedive when decisions don’t go in your favour. But hey, join the club. Bribing and backroom deals can’t solve ALL your life problems, you know.
    
    Tell ya what, I think Daddy Pelouzey’s got some industry white chocolate to help soothe that big honking butthurt of yours. Don’t forget to breathe, now!
UKsoSAD

So in the UK the music industry is in charge of your internet LMFAO.
- cgimusic
  
  Actually most of us have had our internet filtered for years by the Internet Watch Foundation. The worst part is, unlike the Pirate Bay blocks, they don’t even tell you when a page is being blocked they just give you a fake HTTP error page. That is China level transparency right there. Luckily my ISP does not participate in any filtering what so ever.
  
  Edit:
  I should also point out this is a key example of why censorship expands as soon as it is imposed at all. One of the key arguments for getting ISPs to block TPB was that they already had the infrastructure to do so through the IWF.
Gen. Eric Guy

Just wait. Most good intentions come rigged with a plan behind it.

Something tells me that according to how quick they responded and helped us, this was a planned move.

Be vigilant and cautious. They might have a few tricks up their sleeve. These guys tend to be mentioned in many artists songs as “The Devil” and much like The Devil, these guys are tricksters.

I would tread lightly, and make sure everything is completely legit, before we celebrate.
Redguy

Oh hey look this site looks like it could challenge us, i say it also looks like it can have something to do with pirate bay *wink wink* *nudge nudge*…only takes one idiotic decision to block a site and many will follow with no contest.

On a side note
Ann Oni Mouse

The Internet was originally invented to be free and for easy access to free information. ISPs are middle men who really aren’t necessary and are like salesmen selling you air. Considering you pay for the ‘service’ they provide you should be consulted before certain things are blocked from you.
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Absolutely right on the ‘you should be consulted’.
- ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt
  
  “ISPs are middle men who really aren’t necessary and are like salesmen selling you air. ”
  
  only somewhat disagree with this, without some of the major ISPs most networks wouldn’t be connected, someone has to pay for the lines and set them up.
  
  Correct me if I’m wrong though, the money for those probably comes from tax payers anyways.
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  The phenomenon you describe is called “mere conduit” and “common carrier”. It was established long long ago that a society can not function if the messenger service has any other function than simply delivering communication unopened and unsurveilled.
  
  However, certain vested interests do claim that common communication privacy and basic tenets of democracy are a “luxury” we can not afford.
  
  Usually by claiming that certain human rights as described by the UN are privileges which can and should be revoked.
JoTimmJo

lol, thats pretty funyn when you think about it dude. Wow.
http://www.IP-Hiding.tk
Not Telling

Uk ISP TalkTalk still blocks the promobay
Guest

wow ppl in UK are saying it’s still blocked…
Fin

I have to give the BPI credit here. On recognizing the problem they addressed it. I am sure some exec thought “If we play ball now it will help us get what we want in future” but as long as that desire tempered by us and ORG then that’s fine.

I don’t agree with the piratebay block or the secrecy around it but they did do the right thing and in the legal world they did it in record time!

(I am more worried that BPI had permission to withdraw the site from the list of blocks, it does sound they have control to block whatever they want as normally if a court had defined the list they would have had to goto court with ISP’s to request the site removed)
Ddbeebee

There’s something wrong here.
The Court judgement would have notified the defendants (ie the ISPs) of their decision – ie that the ISPs were to block xxx because of xxxx. However, the Court does not have the power to allow the person/organisation bringing the case to police how the block is applied, take action if the ruling is breached, or to extend the ruling so that another block is applicable under the law because of a similar breach. Said organisation has to recourse to the law again in case of a breach, or potential breach (you decided this in that case, now we’re presenting evidence that this site also falls under the same category). Even if the Court had given a blanket decision (sort of : ‘and any other site that may exist now or later’ that breaches the same copyright rules’), the right to take action other than return to Court does not exist.

In this case, The PirateBay has a different site which is not covered by the original Court decision. The BPI cannot assume that the Court decision also covers associated sites, and it cannot apply an extension as a result of that assumption. Their only resort is to return to Court to try and add the new ‘infringing’ sites.

Something else is going on here. Are the ISPs too jumpy to stand up, and simply ready to allow the BPI to make their own rules? Or are they just too happy to comply, hoping nobody analyses the reasoning?
Anonymous

how the hell can companies as big as and with as much power as ISPs do whatever they are told by a particular industry? how the hell can a government be in such a position as to allow a single industry to pull the wool over it’s eyes so much, to influence it so much as to do whatever it is told to the detriment of anything and everything else? this is much worse than shameful! my own UK MP has been brainwashed to such an extent that he believes all the fairy stories the BPI etc are spinning, without even considering that they may be lying, just to protect their own interests, whilst screwing everyone else! no other possibilities considered at all!!
- Anyone
  
  because a court order forced them to
  
  and the judges were either clueless or bought
  - Anonymous
    
    would you like to link to the court order that says the PromoBay was illegal, who had decided and on what evidence that it was illegal and had to be blocked, who had provided that evidence and who checked that it was accurate?
    - xmichaelx
      
      Reading is hard, isn’t it?
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mobanche

http://tiny.cc/syp4nw
mary hinge

still not blocked in France.
Rivers

still not unblocked on my isp BeThere, sub of O2.
kiokio

http://lnk.co/KQ35L
Xenon1

Are the BPI now the internet police??
http://twitter.com/DuckTheNWO ? NewWorldStoner ?

“While the BPI should be applauded for their move, the incident raises the question whether a private industry group should be in control of an Internet blocklist to begin with.”

Because we live in a fascist dictatorship in which large corporations own and control our governments. This fact becomes more and more obvious by the day as the policies implemented by government clearly serve only to squash competition for the largest of the corporations who have all bought and paid for the politicians in government through “donations” and other such methods of control. This is pure fascism.
kent

The internet is going to put the record companies out of business – artists can now make their own ‘product’ and sell it direct to the public at a fraction of the cost …
shuibeng225

http://al.ly/qxA
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=560991743 Kevin Fields

On one hand, perhaps it is questionable that a private industry group like BPI has such strong influence on national Internet filters. On the other hand, how fast do you think the national government would have acted on such a request? At least in the United States, swift action from a government regulatory body is not the norm.

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