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

49 pointsby Uncle_Sam15 anni fa16 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

skrause15 anni fa

... in Malaysia.

loboman15 anni fa

Yes, that should be in the title.

hsmyers15 anni fa

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...

randallsquared15 anni fa

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

jasonzemos15 anni fa

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.

xxpor15 anni fa

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.

ceejayoz15 anni fa

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

xxpor15 anni fa

Lobby the US Government, lobby the world?

ceejayoz15 anni fa

"Buy one, get 202 free!"

rapidstuff15 anni fa

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

Qz15 anni fa

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

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

xxpor15 anni fa

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.

drinian15 anni fa

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.

Metapony15 anni fa

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

chrisjsmith15 anni fa

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

forgotmyuser15 anni fa

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