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This isn't anything new. Most of the major ISPs in the UK work with the Internet Watch Foundation [1] who maintain a blacklist of sites with certain types of co
by aes256 14y ago
This isn't anything new. Most of the major ISPs in the UK work with the Internet Watch Foundation [1] who maintain a blacklist of sites with certain types of content (child pornography, criminally obscene images, etc.) and have been blocking these for years.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation
- shocks 14y agoUnderstood, but the point here is that promobay.org doesn't actually link to copyright material or anything else of such a nature. Promobay.org was just banned because it has a weak affiliation to a method of desceminating content, some of which could in certain circumstances be copyright material - but ultimately that is up to the USER and not the website to which promobay is related. Edit: grammar.
- aes256 14y agoWe haven't had official word from any of the ISPs involved. Sounds to me like a mistake, or an excessively cautious response to the prior court order requiring ISPs to block access to TPB. This may be a different domain, and it may be hosted on a different server, but this is inextricably linked to TPB.
- regularfry 14y agoThat's the thing about slippery slopes. You can generally point to any specific instance and say "but this isn't anything new".