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Yeah, it was circumvented Pretty quickly. You can't outsmart a pirate. It's a good example of a government trying to restrict what it's citizens can do however,
by DigitalSea 14y ago
Yeah, it was circumvented Pretty quickly. You can't outsmart a pirate. It's a good example of a government trying to restrict what it's citizens can do however, even if it failed the government tried to block access in the first place.
- benologist 14y agoYou can't outsmart a pirate. You should share that theory with the ones they put in prison and the many they've successfully sued. It's literally irrelevant if you don't like their results, it's malicious if you encourage others to be ignorant.
- Karunamon 14y ago>You should share that theory with the ones they put in prison and the many they've successfully sued. Which are a tiny, microscopic even, minority of people who pirate.
- benologist 14y agoYou're right - they haven't figured out how to sue everyone at once so people are indeed outsmarting them by clicking links on TPB proxies!
- finnw 14y agoIt's worth mentioning that it was not the UK governmnent that ordered the block; It was a judge (not as bad IMO.)
- illuminate 14y ago"You can't outsmart a pirate." You can't generally bludgeon them with force, you can't outsmart them forever, but sure. People can and do outsmart pirates, it's just rare and those "combatting" usually aren't creative or empowered enough to make the right (er, effective?) decisions.