The Pirate Bay gets blocked in Turkey

First post :-)

I want to say here that I'm glad I live in the good ole USA, but
you gotta wonder how long it will be til we get hit like that.

Originally posted by H0bbes:

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First post :-)

I want to say here that I'm glad I live in the good ole USA, but
you gotta wonder how long it will be til we get hit like that.

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Sucks that it's blocked. Maybe it was banned for reasons similar to Youtube... Like it had the original version of that anti-turkish video torrent there.

Is'nt turkeys trying to get into the EU,just might be their way of sucking up

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Is'nt turkeys trying to get into the EU,just might be their way of sucking up

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Originally posted by H0bbes:

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First post :-)

I want to say here that I'm glad I live in the good ole USA, but
you gotta wonder how long it will be til we get hit like that.

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I live in America, and I've modded every console and whatnot I own. I've also downloaded all sorts of things for my own private use and have only have never run into legal problems because of loopholes in the law. So I for one am proud to live in America, where yes, we have our flaws, but I have no grudge against my freedoms and the fact that the government (while not perfect) does NOT shut my browsing experience down. If any site wants to internally censor me because my ISP is American, than they can feel free, but that's their choice and their right as sight owners. Also, if I had a server overseas, chances are, because of the high demand American's put on File Servers, I would block the US internall also. But all I can say is this: AT LEAST IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT SHUT DOWN OUR BARE ABILITIES, as the Turkish government has thier people.

I've shared my thoughts about piracy and whatnot on the site before, I'm pretty sure it was in the article about Prince sueing The Pirate Bay...

Somethings gotta give....

I'm all for the pirate bay. But lets face reality here. This cannot go on like this forever. Laws will have to be made. Piracy will never stop, but lawmakers cannot just turn a blind eye when its everywhere and so easily accessible.

Something will be done globally on the internet to combat this. However, in my opinion, CHANGE in the way we distribute things is needed. The Internet needs to be used productively. I would think that SPAM is MORE an internet and global problem than piracy, but they figure their is lost $$$ in piracy so SPAM is on the backburner.

As for Vicious88...your American government is STEALING your money. You don't need to pay all that Income Tax. If you don't, they throw you in Jail. You my friend are a prisoner in your own country, like it or not. Your are either blind or brainwashed.

Originally posted by the US dictatorship:

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Beginning in February 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will implement their "Advance Passenger Information System (APIS)", the gist of which is that you will need permission from the United States Government to travel on any air or sea vessel that goes to, from or through the U.S. The travel companies will not be able to issue a boarding pass until you are cleared by DHS.

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Originally posted by MightyOne:

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Somethings gotta give....

I'm all for the pirate bay. But lets face reality here. This cannot go on like this forever. Laws will have to be made. Piracy will never stop, but lawmakers cannot just turn a blind eye when its everywhere and so easily accessible.

Something will be done globally on the internet to combat this. However, in my opinion, CHANGE in the way we distribute things is needed. The Internet needs to be used productively. I would think that SPAM is MORE an internet and global problem than piracy, but they figure their is lost $$$ in piracy so SPAM is on the backburner.

As for Vicious88...your American government is STEALING your money. You don't need to pay all that Income Tax. If you don't, they throw you in Jail. You my friend are a prisoner in your own country, like it or not. Your are either blind or brainwashed.

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After the article I read about Pirate bay allowing child porn on their servers and doing nothing to stop it even after they have knowledge that it was going on, I hope they go down in flames.

We all need to move to Canada or Italy.. Turkey is trying to be a western democracy but struggling internally with the hate and repression coming out of fundamentalist islam. They, like most countries internationally signed the DMCA and blocking a site is far better than the US way of extortion and threats towards the people who access things through it.

BTW.. if we want to talk politics.. The us ammendment (16) which created the IRS and imposed income tax was never ratified..not enough states voted, check it out!!! therefore it is illegal to send somebody to jail for refusing to pay it... some democracy.

Concerning Turkey and the EU.. Some countries will vote yes. UK, Spain, France.. others will vote NO.. germany, austria, probably all the eastern ones, poland hungary rumania..

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I don't know about everybody else, but I love being an American. I like having the freedom to speek my mind and not disappear in the middle of the night; and my family won't be recieving a bill in the mail for 32 cents, the cost of the bullet it took for the government to put me out of it's misery.

Do they know what a proxy server is?

funny stuff.

I gues that the judge said block it because i said so :P