| The legislation of protecting copyright is valid in the | | | | something that most people might think about, it's true |
| sense that a copyright owner does not want their | | | | that these types of files are found with a search |
| work to be reproduced and redistributed on the | | | | online. |
| internet without their permission. One of the forms in | | | | Secondly, people who really want to use those sites |
| which copyright is violated is through torrent sites. | | | | that are blocked will just use proxies. This is what |
| Governments around the world have considered | | | | many do in China where the government blocks most |
| forcing the ISPs to block popular torrent sites to try to | | | | of the internet. A proxy can go around artificial blocks |
| limit copyright infringement, but will this actually work? | | | | and access content. |
| First of all these torrent sites do not have any illegal | | | | If these methods didn't work, people sharing illegal files |
| content on them. Think of them as the search engine | | | | would just find another method. Peer to peer movie |
| for torrents. One may find illegal files on a torrent or | | | | sharing dropped considerably on torrent sites because |
| legal ones, but the files are not on those sites at all. | | | | streaming movies is just easier. If one could not get a |
| This would be blocking access to those files. There is | | | | movie through a blocked method the internet leave |
| somewhat of a fallacy in this thinking of blocking sites | | | | 1000 others meaning the person who wants illegal |
| because Google, Yahoo, and Bing have links to illegal | | | | content will just do something else. |
| torrents as well. Would ISPs block search engines too? | | | | While the heart of the matter is in the right place, the |
| If search engines still existed, which they would, | | | | concept of blocking a group of listings to stop piracy is |
| torrents to illegal files will still be found. While it's not | | | | a bit short sighted. |