Why UK website blocks are hypocritical in the grand scheme of things
Gary Marshall for TechRadar on the hypocrisy of government-led, court-ordered website blocks:
The other night I tried and failed to find a legitimate pair of Sennheiser headphones on eBay. There were fakes everywhere.
Would it be reasonable for Sennheiser to demand that the Post Office doesn’t deliver any counterfeit headphones to anyone in the UK, or that ISPs block eBay? Of course not – but that’s effectively what the BPI wants BT to do with the Pirate Bay.
Well quite. But it’s even further than that. Newzbin didn’t deliver a fucking thing.
What they’re actually demanding is that the Post Office don’t deliver a letter that MIGHT contain information on where to order a counterfeit Sennheiser from.
And what is it about Sennheiser that makes it next to impossible to buy online? Why so many fakes?
(serious question, I have tried to buy them as well)