Before I start I would like to say I neither approve, nor condem people who use torrent websites, this is purely poking fun at governments that don't have a clue.

The uk courts have said that sites like pirate bay should censored and all links blocked to them.

Why on earth do they think this works???

This is the article on the bbc website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18270343

The funny thing is, the BBC website provides a link to the page that gives the new address of pirate bay in the uk!

Am I the only one who thinks trying to combat piracy in this manner is very much like wack a mole, or to use a more historical term, trying to kill a hydra by cutting its head off?

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It is. I have railed against this before. Media companies push really big bucks at governments to have them support business models that are being threatened by the internet. There is no "combating" piracy, by the time you kill napster, Limewire springs up. By the time you kill limewire, pirate bay springs up.

At some point these guys will realize that instead of trying to stop piracy cold, they treat it like a compeating business model. Piracy comes with a price (viruses, malware, poor quaility, lots of work to find), and if they offer a good, quality digital product and a reasonable price, many studies and practical economic studies have shown (louie CK being a good model for this) that people would rather pay then pirate.

But when they offer severely hamstrung, broken products (can't move the media to the devices you want easily for instance) at exorbitant prices (3.99 for a 20 page comic...seriously, or 19.99 for a digital copy of a movie from 5 years ago), people will chose piracy. Not because they like to steal, but it is the better product on the market.

If you could buy a current run digital movie for $5, or one that is still in the theaters for $10....if you could buy a new comic for $1.99 and back catalog for $.99....if these things were easy to move from your ipad to your windows computer to your google tv....piracy wouldn't disappear, but it would shrink in volume by a lot.

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I can get current digital copies from the marvel app for £1.69 and old ones for £.69...


But yes, I 100% agree with you.

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Not sure what that works out to US....the marvel hap has current issues for 3.99 here, which is high..

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FWIW: Last I checked pounds X2 = dollars

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Just looked it up, it 1 to 1.5

So $2.5 and $1

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Better pricing then us. I wish new comics cost 2.5

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I think I’ve mentioned this here somewhere before, but Universal tried this with Tower Heist (that god awful Eddie Murphy vehicle). They were going to release it for streaming over the web, 3 weeks after the theatrical release, at a price of $59.99. The cinema chains collectively shit a brick even at that exorbitant price, and refused to show the movie. Universal scrapped the plan.

So even when part of the industry finally starts making moves in the right direction (even if the price point was laughable), there’s always another part waiting to spit their bottle out.

Going back to the original point, the UK Pirate Party is now hosting a Pirate Bay mirror, and has said they'll do the same for any other torrent sites blocked by the courts. They're doing this because, as a recognised British political party, it would require a change in the law to allow anyone to demand they take it down

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^ Pirate parties. I like this. I went to a pirates vs ninjas party in college. Good times.

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