Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-04 Thread Graeme Fowler
Somewhere in the mists of time, I wrote: That's genuinely fascinating. I can't find the actual judgement and subsequent direction handed to ISPs in this case - does anyone have a copy? Et voila: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2012/1152.html Para. 13 is of particular interest, laying

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Armitage
On 4 May 2012, at 11:44, Graeme Fowler wrote: Somewhere in the mists of time, I wrote: That's genuinely fascinating. I can't find the actual judgement and subsequent direction handed to ISPs in this case - does anyone have a copy? Et voila:

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-04 Thread Mark Blackman
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Armitage wrote: On 4 May 2012, at 11:44, Graeme Fowler wrote: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2012/1152.html Para. 13 is of particular interest, laying out as it does the basic how to. I cannot find a statement containing moles, and whack-em. One suspects

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-04 Thread Ben Laurie
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote: Thomas Mangin said: Since the day cleanfeed was announced, it was easy to predict that one day cleanfeed like systems would be used for doing more than saving the children. And at the time BT gave ISPA and LINX an

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-04 Thread Malcolm Hutty
On 04/05/2012 12:14, Ben Laurie wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Clive D.W. Feather cl...@davros.org wrote: Thomas Mangin said: Since the day cleanfeed was announced, it was easy to predict that one day cleanfeed like systems would be used for doing more than saving the children.

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 1 May 2012, at 18:55, Adrian Kennard uk...@e.gg wrote: I hate to say I told you so, but when there was campaigning for 100% IWF block list take up by ISPs, I spoke out against it. I said it would quickly expand beyond its remit. Now we see that, not just within the IWF, but by the courts

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-02 Thread Neil J. McRae
On 2 May 2012, at 06:25, Steve Dyer st...@enovi.com wrote: Nicholas Lansman, who 'is' ISPA, was on Radio 4 a few days ago on this subject. He was rambling and not persuasive in any way. There are other more effective organisations:

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-02 Thread cdel.firsthand.net
ISOC did a high level policy paper on DNS filtering. http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/docs/dns-filtering_20110915.pdf In UK this has been taken to DCMS and others. What more would folk would like to see done locally? Christian Christian de Larrinaga On 2 May 2012, at 08:32, Paul

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-02 Thread Marcus Taylor
On 02/05/12 11:38, Martin MacLeod-Brown wrote: How long do you give newsgroups, they will be next on the list... Or mailing lists..or go the whole hog and stop allowing people to use email [they could exchange magnet links] We could end up with all communications being filtered/censored

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-02 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:07 +0100, Marcus Taylor wrote: Slippery slope, thin wedge - call it what you like - the net result is this is a backward step for this industry. s/industry/country/ HMG are very keen to make policy decisions based on what is good for business is good for the country.

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-02 Thread Gavin Brown
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17922214 VPNs could become the next front in the battle against piracy, predicted independent music analyst Mark Mulligan. VPNs have far more legitimate uses than torrent indexes, so I'd say they'd have a struggle on their hands. How would it

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Adrian Farrel
was fine. This morning, everything seems to be back to normal. Adrian -Original Message- From: Steve Dyer [mailto:st...@enovi.com] Sent: 30 April 2012 22:16 To: adr...@olddog.co.uk Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block On 30/04/2012 21:52, Adrian Farrel wrote

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Mangin
2012 22:16 To: adr...@olddog.co.uk Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block On 30/04/2012 21:52, Adrian Farrel wrote: It's very quiet here on the subject. What news? Adrian Everyone is perhaps struck dumb by the realisation that, after over twenty years

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Dyer
On 01/05/2012 09:00, Adrian Farrel wrote: Yeah, I agree with you and Martin: the Internet routes around failures, and this is clearly a failure. I was wondering if some operators wanted to share how they are going to try to resolve the order from the court. The order from the original court

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 09:13 +0100, Steve Dyer wrote: The order from the original court said that including the site in Cleanfeed was sufficient to have actioned it. Cleanfeed, the Judge knew, was trivial to circumvent, so he made the order in the knowledge that it wouldn't actually work.

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Karmeinsky
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 02:07:43PM +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 09:13 +0100, Steve Dyer wrote: The order from the original court said that including the site in Cleanfeed was sufficient to have actioned it. Cleanfeed, the Judge knew, was trivial to circumvent, so he

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
From: uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk [uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] on behalf of Steve Karmeinsky [steve-uk...@gbnet.net] Sent: 01 May 2012 14:10 To: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 02:07:43PM +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Tue

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Martin MacLeod-Brown
...@lists.uknof.org.uk] On Behalf Of Anand Kumria Sent: 01 May 2012 16:40 To: Neil J. McRae Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block Your statement is agreeing to this logic: All drug dealers use phones. Therefore all people who use phones are drug dealers. Thus banning

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
From: Adrian Kennard [uk...@e.gg] Sent: 01 May 2012 16:39 To: Neil J. McRae Cc: Steve Karmeinsky; uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block On 01/05/12 16:24, Neil J. McRae wrote: Whilst I personally believe that these solutions don't

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Will Hargrave
On 1 May 2012, at 16:24, Neil J. McRae wrote: Whilst I personally believe that these solutions don't work as a standalone option I think we also need to remember that many if not all of the people downloading stuff via TPB are actually breaking the law. Are you actually sure about that?

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block Your statement is agreeing to this logic: All drug dealers use phones. Therefore all people who use phones are drug dealers. Thus banning phones will reduce drug dealing. A On 1 May 2012 16:24, Neil J. McRae n...@domino.org wrote: Whilst I personally believe

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Russell
Whilst we can't expect a TV advert (...'you wouldn't steal a car'...) to hope to educate users on the between tort and criminal law Would you reasonably expect those adverts to educate anyone ? You wouldn't hit your gran in the face with an ice cream and a flake Chris Knowledge

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Adrian Kennard
; uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block On 01/05/12 16:24, Neil J. McRae wrote: Whilst I personally believe that these solutions don't work as a standalone option I think we also need to remember that many if not all of the people downloading stuff via TPB

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
J. McRae Cc: Adrian Kennard; uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk; Steve Karmeinsky Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block On 01/05/2012 16:47, Neil J. McRae wrote: I wonder how people would cope with that response if you saw someone being mugged but did nothing about it? Doesn't bode well for us all does

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
May 2012 16:52 To: Neil J. McRae Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block On 1 May 2012, at 16:24, Neil J. McRae wrote: Whilst I personally believe that these solutions don't work as a standalone option I think we also need to remember that many if not all

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Aled Morris
On 1 May 2012 21:51, Adrian Kennard uk...@e.gg wrote: Oh, I know. But are we enough of a voice to cause sanity to prevail? No; as Thomas pointed out... Lobbies are stopped by other lobbies. Time to lobby Aled

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread William Anderson
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Paul Cairney paul.cair...@eu.equinix.com wrote: (Please excuse the From: line, the folowing diartibe is mostly my personal oppinion) If only there was some sort of legal entity who could lobby on behalf of the views that consensous of this list has concluded

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Dyer
On 01/05/2012 23:35, William Anderson wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Paul Cairney paul.cair...@eu.equinix.com wrote: (Please excuse the From: line, the folowing diartibe is mostly my personal oppinion) If only there was some sort of legal entity who could lobby on behalf of the

[uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-04-30 Thread Adrian Farrel
It's very quiet here on the subject. What news? Adrian

Re: [uknof] Pirate Bay Block

2012-04-30 Thread Steve Dyer
On 30/04/2012 21:52, Adrian Farrel wrote: It's very quiet here on the subject. What news? Adrian Everyone is perhaps struck dumb by the realisation that, after over twenty years experience of the public internet, courts and law-makers still haven't realised that this won't work. Where is