Hollywood win court case to block UK access. to NZB

[NoScream~SPARTA~]

Looks like internet censorship reaches out from Hollwood to websites.

 

Although piracy is wrong, so is censorship of the internet, as the original concept and implementation of the internet was to have free access to information for all. Hollywood have now a court ruling from the U.S.A. for a U.K. ISP to block access to a nzb host site (nzb's provide links to content, not the actual content).

 

What is an NZB? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZB

 

This of course can be navigated around by VPN hoping (proxy) but where will it stop? the blocking of VPN companies, proxy companies, other countries? All this does is block direct access to a website for one group of users & leave open others like torrents (another form of link provision to content).

 

 

 

https://www.newzbin.com/blog/?p=93

 

BT had argued that forcing it to ban its 6 million UK customers from accessing a website would usher in a new wave of online censorship.

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/28/high-court-bt-filesharing-website-newzbin2

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/28/newzbin2-filesharing-verdict-industry-reactions

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/28/site_blocking_bt_and_newzbin2/

 

 

The original Newsbinz site was shut down, only to spawn a clone site Newsbinz2, like Napster in a way, it provides links to content, knowing they failed with closing the original site, Hollywood now are intent on making ISP's block access to the clone site.

 

But this will fail too as users can bounce their connection to the site from their country (U.K.) to another country then back to the target site, eg: U.K. ---> Holland ---> Newsbinz2. Yes Hollywood propagate piracy by globally staggering release dates just like the Games industry, forcing customers to find copies of the titles/software via none legal routes. If they only did a global release, then all would have access to the product/ movie from day 1.

 

All they have done is follow previous means (like in the U.S.A.) of trying to restrict customers.

 

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/28/site_blocking_bt_and_newzbin2/

BT quoted the Digital Economy Act in its defence, which the judge did not like.

 

Judge Arnold said he believed site-blocking was proportionate, with the Human Rights Act's Article 1 – which protects the property rights of creators – outweighing Article 10's rights of free expression claimed on behalf of Newsbinz2 members, and BT.

 

Ring any bells?

http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/human-rights/the-human-rights-act/what-the-rights-mean/article-10-freedom-of-expression.php

 

Article 10 gives everyone the right to freedom of expression, which includes the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without State interference.

 

So much for none STATE interference...

 

 

And we thought The 'Rights' applied to all.....

Human Rights Act

 

So much for that... Next Hollywood will target the 360Million residents of the U.S. via U.S.A. ISP's....

I like to see what happens then.

 

Many other NZB sites to knock down for the U.S.A. courts...

http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-search-engines.html

 

p.s.

For those unfamiliar with Newsbinz or NZB's, Newsbinz2 is similar to Google but instead of providing links to webpages, it provides links (in the form of NZB's) to files that have been segmented & listed on News groups.

 

An alternative format to Torrent system.

 

 

I guess Hollywood is using the U.K. as a test-bed for it's pre-emptive strike on it's own home land market 'THE U.S.A.'

 

 

 

 

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[niall]

ireland has done this on the first of september 2009. the main semi-state isp, eircom blocked access to the pirate bay after a request from sony, emi and warner,

whilst many agree that downloading music illegally is against the law still resent the fact that eircom did this willingly as there is no law in ireland that the music industry could invoke to have the isp block the website the pirate bay. other isps' have not bowed down to the music corperations because they are not required to do so!

many feel it is the start of things to come.

censorship of the internet by eircom.

 

where do we draw the line?

[Elvis~SPARTA~]

The technology they will use to do this is the same mechanism they will use to block access to sites featuring anything that doesn't contribute to the empire of the billionaires. Want to grow your own food? Too dangerous, you don't need to know that. Buy at McDonalds.

 

Oligarchy, fascism, the death of privacy.

[Hunter~SPARTA~]

Hollywood has been hard after Torrents over here for awhile. When I lived in Georgia I received several "cease and desist" letters from my ISP about my Torrent activity. The ISP had attached a letter they had received from some Hollywood watchdog agency that had reported my IP to them. The ISP name is escaping me at the moment. Charter, I think it was.

 

It was only a matter of time before they broadened their gaze onto Usenet.

 

 

- JHunter