While you can still use Torrent sites, Tribler has decentralized search, meaning no more relying on websites that can be found and shut down. Tribler is an easy-to-use application, much like Popcorn Time, a Netflix-like BitTorrent app that can stream movies as you download them. Tribler is an open-source, peer-to-peer decentralized - and now anonymous - BitTorrent client. But have no fear, because Delft University researchers just released the safest way to torrent yet. Changing their behaviour needs a better strategy than censorship, which will push these customers further away from the music industry.With the Pirate Bay raid, the internet’s most iconic piracy site is gone. Like it or not, study after study shows Pirate Bay users are also the highest paying music and film customers. Whether you think the Pirate Bay was a bold experiment, an irresponsible criminal act, or a distraction, censorship makes them look both genuinely threatening and victimized. People will pay for content: but they need to be tempted, rather than cajoled and harassed.ģ It makes the Pirate Bay into heroes. Pushes for copyright enforcement continue to create an illusion that control can be obtained by force rather than consent. They think it is control of the market and product we think it is their speed of innovation. In the case of Pirate Bay, some copyright industries, have a problem. We see this spreading from a tiny number of child abuse sites under the IWF, to a growing number of copyright infringement sites, to proposals for extremist sites and default supposedly-adult content blocks.Ģ It reduces pressure to deal with the real problems. Now that a gatekeeping, censoring role is established in politicians’ minds, new duties will be added. Three reasons censorship is dangerousġ It places ISPs firmly in the role of censor. The case hasn’t been made that drastic censorship measures are needed. You can use decentralized search tools, built into torrent clients, such as the EU-funded ģ Most copyright industries seem to be doing quite well (books, films, games, software). Three reasons censorship is pointlessġ You’ll almost certainly still be able to visit the website, without any additional software, simply by using an SSL link, like Ģ You no longer need a website to find shared bit-torrent files. Join Open Rights Group and get involved in the fight. The aim is to take the decision about what you are allowed to see and do online out of your hands. Touchy subjects including copyright and child protection are merely the tools by which to advocate and build the infrastructure of control. The new push is for control, to replace regulation. Internet regulation is intense and highly sophisticated, including e-Commerce, e-Privacy, copyright and data protection. They both speak to a desire to control, monitor and pre-vet communications. This strange alliance between copyright lobbyists and people concerned about children accessing pornography, is potentially extremely toxic. That gives us tremendous power, but it won’t stop politicians for looking for the off switch when they find something they don’t like. Politicians want to know who the broadcaster and publishers are and then ask them to act in the perceived interests of a passive audience.įortunately, speech on the Internet is more like a village square or a pub than television. The Internet is not a broadcast medium, but politicians want to treat as such. Why should the Internet be any different?” We don’t accept it with any other media, with telly, or mobile phones, or anything else. “I think the time is coming when the Internet should not be treated differently from any other form of media. She claimed (1h40m) that the Internet needed to be ‘regulated’ like all other media. She drew parallels between her proposal for ISP network level filtering to prevent access to “pornography” and the new blocking order for Pirate Bay. If you want to know how bad things are getting, look no further than the confused conversation on Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning.Ĭlaire Perry was asked to comment on the Pirate Bay blocking, as an advocate of the default blocking of pornography. Jim Killock censorship What they want is control
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