The fact is that Fileserve, Rapidshare, etc. CANNOT run their businesses if they have to filter every single file on their networks for copyright violations.
It’s too man-labor intensive, too computer-labor intensive, etc.

Add into it that the computer means could be easily gotten around by using encryption of the files uploaded with obfuscated names, and you see why these places cannot legitimately be required to police their sites for pirated content.

On the CP thing….. who would use a flash-enabled (which allows you to see through TOR proxying from warnings on various legal porn websites) site for uploading that?

Something reeks about that and I think that the only people uploading CP to those websites are the police themselves.

If you end up with a list where queries are blocked and you can see your ISP’s DNS server among them, switch ISP or run a VPN as permanent standard. That’s all there is to it.

The reason, for me, is simple. When an NGO sets up a watch list meant to combat child pornography and the contents of a leaked list turn out to be 98% “Not Child Porn” then you know that these watchlists have been set up to combat “Whatever the hell anyone, anywhere, thought to be objectionable”.

And I won’t accept filtering as haphazard as that on the information available to me. Neither should anyone else.

Just thought I’d fix that sentence for you. Of course, according to your arguments we should hold Ford responsible for rising crime since they manufacture so many getaway vehicles.

In real life the relevant comparison would be that you woke up one morning just to find that the road outside your house had been removed and the bus lines shut down.

Without any explanation other than a vague indication that some of your neighbors might have engaged in a DUI.