Archive for August, 2008
Congratulations, Fox News
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Well done Fox News, nice way to censor a poor Russian child and her auntie describing how Georgian troops attacked them, and how they managed to escape thanks to the Russians.
How can we still trust the media?
The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Today’s news is: fascism is officially back in Italy, and a popular Bit Torrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, has been blocked by our government.
Now, I understand that is possible to download copyright protected material from Bit Torrent trackers, but blocking them is like shutting down stores that sell photocopiers and DVD recorders because they could POTENTIALLY be used to illegally copy stuff.
Anyway, our road to become like China is still long, but I am sure Silvio & Co will do their best to ruin what good is left of our country in no time.
Im the meantime, I am packing my bags.
From TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay’s IPs and the domain name are inaccessible, as they are blocked by ISPs all over the country. Whether these blocks will be very effective, however, is doubtful, since The Pirate Bay has already announced several countermeasures. An insider working at an Internet provider in Italy told TorrentFreak that all the relevant large access ISPs in Italy have complied with the request to block the popular BitTorrent tracker, which was sent out yesterday. Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same prosecutor who is responsible for the Pirate Bay block.
As you see, The Pirate Bay team has switched IPs to bypass the block, but if anyone is still experiencing problems I suggest giving up your ISP’s DNS and switch to OpenDNS.
