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July 29, 2011 01:20 am GMT
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British Court Orders ISP To Block Filesharing Website In Potential Landmark Ruling
The issues of censorship, net neutrality, and file sharing will be kicking for years to come, and the necessity of making the relevant laws agree internationally will be by no means a small part of the conflict. But those laws have to be reasonable and scalable to begin with. Today brings a development from the UK, where a judge has determined that BT must use its Cleanfeed censorship technology, intended for blocking child pornography, to prevent its subscribers from accessing the file sharing website Newzbin2.It seems that even the Pirate Bay defense (moving your servers to a secret cave) will be ineffective in this case. As I wrote before regarding the need for an alternative DNS: when lobbyists and short-sighted legislators start cutting off certain sources at whatever choke point seems convenient, that's nothing short of a slippery slope.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QZD6jtt2GZg/
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