On: Finnish ISP forced to block access to ThePirateBay and other sites

[rplnt]

PirateBay is a search engine. Nothing more. It's really stupid to go after sites like this. There are multiple other "torrent sites" operating on the same torrents. You take one down, others are alive. Besides, to start a torrent you only need one hash[1] and working DHT. There are sites which only "host" this hash. On which grounds could you possibly take them down? Then there is another chapter - private trackers. So trying to block one search engine/tracker is really pointless.

And PirateBay itself doesn't even host any copyrighted material. Rapidshare, Megaupload and others do. But they have money.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

[yason → rplnt]

There are sites which only "host" this hash. On which grounds could you possibly take them down?

The hash is wrong color[1].

[1] Was on HN a few weeks ago: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

[rplnt → yason]

The hash is wrong color

This reminded me of http://www.hid.im/

[nickik → rplnt]

Do you really think that the people who want to blaock TPB know what TPB is? Or what a hash is? Or what the diffrence between torrent and a hoster is?

[randomdata → rplnt]

> PirateBay is a search engine.

I'm surprised that Google is still in business, honestly. Though they do block some content to comply with the DMCA, which helps their case.