Blocking Pirate Sites Inevitably Goes Wrong, Even When You Do it Yourself

Support for site or content blocking measures usually turns on individual needs. Equally, those who object to blocking pirate sites, may be enthusiastic supporters of blocking abusive ads, trackers, and malware. Internet users should be free to block whatever they like, piracy included. But as a novel 'anti-piracy' blocklist reveals, when things inevitably go wrong, transparency puts things right.