Pirate Bay, MegaUpload & Others Blocked By Government Order in Malaysia(torrentfreak.com)

49 pointsby Uncle_Samvor 15 Jahren16 comments

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Pirate Bay, MegaUpload & Others Blocked By Government Order in Malaysia

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-megaupload-others-blocked-by-government-order-110609/

6 comments

skrausevor 15 Jahren

... in Malaysia.

lobomanvor 15 Jahren

Yes, that should be in the title.

hsmyersvor 15 Jahren

Given that governments are immune to the rule of law, why do they bother to lie about their actions? Waste of time and paper seems to me. They choose to distinguish between 'censor' and 'remove' claiming that one is not the other. I'm sure that all of the users involved will clearly understand the 'subtle' distinction involved in the Orwell-speak...

randallsquaredvor 15 Jahren

Non-totalitarian governments are not immune from public opinion, and, more relevantly, individual bureaucrats and politicians are certainly not so immune.

jasonzemosvor 15 Jahren

No government is immune from public opinion, that's why no government that rules by pure force has ever lasted a significant period of time either.

xxporvor 15 Jahren

Why does the Malaysian gov bother listening to the movie and music industries? What do they lose if they don't block (i.e. have some companies threatened to move out? Threatened not to film there anymore?)?

edit: fixed my split infinitive.

ceejayozvor 15 Jahren

US diplomatic pressure has been quietly and not-so-quietly exerted on piracy-friendly nations (China's a good example) in the past.

xxporvor 15 Jahren

Lobby the US Government, lobby the world?

ceejayozvor 15 Jahren

"Buy one, get 202 free!"

rapidstuffvor 15 Jahren

Absolutely ridiculous and myopic move by the government. Its probably a bunch of junior government workers influencing the retiring decision makers

Qzvor 15 Jahren

FYI, the split infinitive 'rule' isn't actually a rule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive#Current_views

xxporvor 15 Jahren

FTA: Splitting infinitives with negations remains an area of contention:

    I want to not see you anymore.
    I soon learned to not provoke her.

That's interesting, because that's what I had done.

drinianvor 15 Jahren

Malaysia is pretty liberal, but there's still a lot of content, like pornography, that's illegal there. It's probably not just about protecting American content providers.

Metaponyvor 15 Jahren

They were trying to block all the copies of Zoolander they could.

chrisjsmithvor 15 Jahren

These guys aren't much better in the UK. They transparently break bits of the Internet regularly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation

forgotmyuservor 15 Jahren

Look like they're going to have to rely on proxies.