[HacktionLab] Fwd: Pirate bay

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HAI

On torrent sites:

there is a gazillion torrent sites on the net. As for recommendations, 
isohunt.com does a good job for movies, eztv.it is THE site for TV stuff.

On proxies (and alikes):

As most solutions to DNS blocking and even IP blocking itself have been 
mentioned, I would like to focus on what reactions from the community have 
been taken in other countries lately. Notably in the Netherlands a similar 
(set of judgements) has ordered 2 ISPs (Ziggo and xs4all) to block the 
piratebay and mirrors (mainly DNS , some IP)

The dutch Pirate Party has set up a proxy of their own and loudly 
advertized it, and was promptly taken to court by the BREIN foundation 
(dutch intellectual property extortion racket simmialr to MPAA/RIAA).

Beside the fact that their proxy is a nice thing, it's just one of many. 
The real feature is the loud advertizing of it, and the ensuing public 
debate/onslaught, as 'censoring the internet' is not very popular 
anywhere.

I don't like the 'party' bit in Pirate Party that much, but setting up 
such a proxy and using it to pull down the web-censors pants is just 
great!

Where from here?

I believe that an approach similar to the PP in NL ( with or without the 
PP ) could be a great success here. I can imagine different variations on 
that theme (meme?), from the overt (official entity ready to be sued) to the 
covert (proxy elsewhere far out of reach but well advertized in the UK, 
sue us if you can get a grip!).

Maybe something to discuss during the Hacktionlab?

'the internet perceives censorship as a bug and routes around it'

kizziz
IAH
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On Tue, 1 May 2012, Alan Dawson wrote:

> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:57:33AM +0100, Mick Fuzz wrote:
>>> Sadly downloading copyrighted content then just shifts the legal issues
>> to the operator of the exit point. >A commercial vpn service like
>> ipredator might be better able to respond to those legal problems.
>>
>> That could be avoided if tor / proxy is used to download the torrent,
>> and then turned off when downloading data from peers.
>>
>
> yes, so you could use a proxy to access the tpb website, but not for your bittorrent client
>
> foxyproxy plugin for firefox allows you to set per site rules for different proxy's
>
> Alan Dawson
> -- 
> "The introduction of a coordinate system to geometry is an act of violence"
>