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Old 05-08-2012, 04:07 AM  
DamianJ
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Because when the blocks are in place, it will effect their traffic.
It did nothing to stop Newzbin2. The access to that was blocked about 18 months ago.

What's different?

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Why fuck around going around the blocks when another site won't have them.
All you need to do is change your DNS. It's not much of a block really, even you could do that. Probably.

And indeed, we agree, people will just use the mirrors (http://pastebin.com/afLxmCr2) or other trackers.


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So it seems you're wrong
Looking at newzbin, it seems you're wrong.

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Hitting Megaupload, effected their ad sales. are you saying it hasn't?
Nope. Obviously it has. Has it done anything to stop piracy? No.

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Can you just explain why you're against people wasting time trying to stop piracy when it doesn't have any effect on you.
Lots of people are against things that don't directly effect them in anyway. I'm against racism. Doesn't effect me, but I am passionately against it - went on loads of demos. I was against fox hunting. Didn't effect me in the slightest.

I don't like the idea of giving the government the ability to censor sites that they decide are unsuitable. As someone that makes a living working in porn, I can see that if a different government gets in, porn could be blocked too. It sets precedents of control I disagree with. See China as an example.


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You not being a pirate or involved in any way with piracy.
Correct. I am not a pirate, nor am I involved in piracy. Netflix, iTunes, Spotify and iPlayer provides all the legal content I could ever possibly want.

Why do you keep asking?
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