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IainB:
Interesting post at Slashdot: Inside the Great Firewall of China's Tor Blocking
Inside the Great Firewall of China's Tor Blocking
by Unknown Lamer

Trailrunner7 writes with an article at Threat Post about China's ability to block Tor. From the article: "The much-discussed Great Firewall of China is meant to prevent Chinese citizens from getting to Web sites and content that the country's government doesn't approve of, and it's been endowed with some near-mythical powers by observers over the years. But it's somewhat rare to get a look at the way that the system actually works in practice. Researchers at Team Cymru got just that recently when they were asked by the folks at the Tor Project to help investigate why a user in China was having his connections to a bridge relay outside of China terminated so quickly. Not only is China able to identify Tor sessions, it can do so in near real-time and then probe the Tor bridge relay and terminate the session within a couple of minutes."

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And this could be useful: "Save the Internet.com"

JavaJones:
I reckon perhaps more effective than an outright boycott would be a massive move over to independent media. After all, with a sudden drop-off of sales and no corresponding rise in other legitimate media business, they can just claim piracy has had a huge jump and they need even more draconian laws to handle it.

- Oshyan

40hz:



So much for bullying other countries into passing laws. Now it seem the US has sold the UK on enforcing US laws as well.

This news just in time for Friday the 13th:

‘Guinea pig’ extradition case sets dangerous precedent for pirating Britons

By Zack Whittaker | January 13, 2012, 7:41am PST

Summary: British citizens can now be extradited to the United States based on a ‘guinea pig’ case regarding the alleged infringement of copyrighted works.
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Link to full article here.

 :-\

40hz:
I reckon perhaps more effective than an outright boycott would be a massive move over to independent media. After all, with a sudden drop-off of sales and no corresponding rise in other legitimate media business, they can just claim piracy has had a huge jump and they need even more draconian laws to handle it.

- Oshyan
-JavaJones (January 12, 2012, 11:09 PM)
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All the more reason why you need to stop consuming. Pirating just plays into their hands.

And alternate indy isn't really viable as a method for sending a message. They'll just keep harassing indies and passing laws until they eliminate them. That's how they got a fee put on audio cassettes. All blanks in the US had a tariff (something like 50¢ each) that got paid back to the recording industry to compensate the for the losses to piracy the music industry 'just knew' were taking place.

You need to kill these people before they get laws passed that makes DRM mandatory for all media. BEcause once that happens they'll be able to survive indefinitely just by licensing that technology.

To defeat big media, you need to put them out of business in a clear and true capitalist fashion such that it gives them no grounds to go running to the government begging for intervention.

Starve them to death. It's the only way. 8)

superboyac:
Wow!  That Cory Doctorow stuff is excellent!  So juicy.  I loved reading that.  I love hearing from people explain things with such clarity.

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