gHacks technology news » Swedish provder http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Piratebay fights back http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/piratebay-fights-back/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/piratebay-fights-back/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:51:11 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/piratebay-fights-back/ Fight fire with fire – that song came probably to the minds of the Piratebay crew. They have decided to react on the censorship of the Swedish internet provider Perspektiv by banning the complete IP range of that provider from accessing the Piratebay, sort of like using censorship as a weapon against censors.

Piratebay also published the php code of the script that blocks the ISP from accessing the website and asks other sites to join in and ban that ISP. Infocider took the liberty to translate the press release into English. The intention seems to be to convince customers of Perspektiv to change the ISP because of their ban of the Russian mp3 website allofmp3.

Do you think that this will work ? I’m not sure yet, if enough websites join the party it could work. Would be interesting to know how many of the users of Perspektiv are actually using the Piratebay. Can you fight fire with fire or should you better try and eliminate the oxygen instead ?

I think another method would be to use a similar script to inform the users of that ISP of what their ISP is doing and offer them ways to change to another ISP. Integrate a ISP search script, think that would actually work better.

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