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Quote Sam Inglis:
Surely adding one more site to the list that is already blocked by Cleanfeed won't make any difference?
Hi,
This case involves "Newzbin2", the site set up after the operators of "Newzbin" got into hot water. What are the chances the site owners will work around the block by creating Newzbin3, Newzbin4, Newzbin5 etc etc. Unfortunately, the Cleanfeed system doesn't scale very well.
Also, the incident I referred to involved collateral damage where editing of Wikipedia pages was broken entirely for many people.
Quote Sam Inglis:
Ah, the old 'slippery slope' argument. Does anyone really believe that this is the first step towards widespread censorship of legitimate investigative journalism?
It sets a precedent of using the Cleanfeed blocking system for things other than images of child sexual abuse.
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Either way, should copyright owners simply do nothing to protect their property?
Ah, the old 'we don't have a good plan, so we'll opt for a bad plan instead' pitfall.
Quote Sam Inglis:
So people who continue to attempt to break the law are now open to greater risk of virus infection? My heart bleeds!
Your computer and your personal data are constant under attack from other computers infected with viruses. As I said, creating more of these and hindering existing helpful efforts to mitigate them might not be great news.
Quote Sam Inglis:Quote chris...:
Not to mention likelihood of more people being unwittingly exposed to kiddie porn.
Er... that seems like a slightly tenuous extrapolation based on the banning of one web site!
Simply that people will shortly be deploying workarounds (VPNs, proxies etc etc) to bypass Cleanfeed - a system which was intended to reduce likelihood of accidentally stumbling across images of child sexual abuse.
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