Thanks!
scott --- [email protected] wrote: From: James Harrison <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uknof] gov't forcing ISPs to block sites? Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:12:09 +0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/03/2015 23:21, Scott Weeks wrote: > "The move, which has been highly effective in Britain..." > > > > Is this the case there? Hollywood can tell the gov't there to > tell the ISPs to block web sites it doesn't like? The courts can order *some* ISPs to block websites that allow/facilitate infringement of copyright, or contain content that infringes copyright, yes. http://wiki.451unavailable.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page Most recently: http://torrentfreak.com/uk-blocking-more-than-100-pirate-sites-after-new - -court-order-150324/ The Open Rights Group has done excellent work on tracking this stuff, and provides a tool for checking per-ISP network-level censorship, mainly targeted at 'family safe' filters but of course showing these blocks up too: https://www.blocked.org.uk/ It isn't a global block, and AIUI the court orders are injunctions against the ISPs rather than something targeted at the government and then enforced by ISPs (though the precise legal process here is beyond my knowledge), and not all of the ISPs are targeted; for instance, one well-known site is blocked on some major ISPs /but not all/: https://www.blocked.org.uk/results?url=http://www.thepiratebay.org As for effectiveness - well, ask the BPI, who seem to apply for most of these. They seem to keep doing it, but I don't know how you'd prove that it was making any difference at all versus, for instance, the increase in available legal options (Spotify, Amazon Prime, Google Play, etc etc etc) when looking at the outcomes (people pirating content ). Circumvention measures are widely available, as most of the blocking is simple DNS stuff - changing to Google DNS (which many 'power users' do anyway for some reason, ime) or your own resolver will 'evade' the block on most ISPs. People who really want to get at these sites, can; it might do /something/ to dissuade 'casual' pirates, I suppose, but I'm not aware of any research/evidence around any of this, so wouldn't like to say one way or the other. - -- Cheers, James Harrison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVFKBZAAoJENTyYHL8dmp9QiQQAIQq3j/O7TNMPBUas1cWu09w 3o7wHVufMvva3IVbEsII/TZA4pHQIjWWv5dOqfwR9L6pvx9rMG/HWWkQAusqOBc4 /TrToPKFrV+j9W6d6RvJZFDbqUtyLaI8eThYafnZkd6bpcCsNIWhVtQfrsFt7MBt 744SQ84wyqU7f/i9ILbmpqPAgTP9xNbw0iPXXdNFS/QGFjXz65Hf/r+fxxWJJqwN RoqkAMRWc0+DoaFUFuHqPG5U1NTSwxCQs6w4+K6F2wrk+bUilWUbQobYsnTiXdRE imPaV2WKV1BJScDa3fCSIHJOTDr5l4oKx/cFJ6cBCCqgZn2H9GJ/8VaQraMo5Aak jUQVEbAQ03Yjf7OsfayqaqrYAhmQ4HeI6iNbV1UH00Y1pVtDxbSZCQBcyU9l+I0X wxaUQFdOtiLSih1xkgo/qzgVnghmHUhSPQWS0BM22cyzv1fe7WiM7i9RucXMTI2G 4EQ34B/goVdDFCJpxSdIbU4VM5RZXM/1C1hEiejv4AFrmOGq0vXsYRfCLvb6HaNy QlAlJpf0dDyY9zH++HmnowantwS2wfYQvkCrjag7yyXHxVu+LGZjhgKDnkxLMIgl m3D82m3b8iF8RiDmpYTILGhhO0HeJp5FfqjC7FITOcq1Yvx+Elf0z5gE8Pk/RAvm 41q9bztZg1ZzerIv3iuV =xa3x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
