Comment Current situation in Italy (Score 1) 247
I've been reading over this over the last days. Right now I'm on a free WiFi on a camping in Italy (yes, I do this even in vacation ^_^).
Here is the current situation. http://labaia.org/ was accessible yesterday night, currently http://thepiratebay.org/ http://labaia.org/ and even 83.140.176.200 try to point to localhost, so adding
echo -e "83.140.176.200 thepiratebay.org\n83.140.176.156 torrents.thepiratebay.org" >>
/etc/hosts
to
As I wrote on the coverage of the event, this will only help strengthen the popularity of the torrent community and stimulate ways to circumvent government censorships. Italian politicians are generally very ignorant about internet-related topics, and this case makes no exception.
I can still remember when colombo-bt, the biggest Italian torrent tracker, was shut down by the police, the replacement page was made with front page....