Well, I don't normally get involved or concern myself with political views here. Only in this case it mildly affects my geek. The Italian National Government has decided to block Piratebay because it is the "way" that italian citizens are able to get copyrighted material that belongs to the privately owned national TV station. It just so happens that the current Premier of Italy owns said station. And now the torrent host service of Piratebay (who physically stores none of the material in question) has been blocked not just via DNS blacklist but has also mandated that all Italian National ISP's block it by IP address.
I normally wouldn't care so much except that I transfer movies of my family back to the States this way as well as download current ISO images of Linux distributions. It's very disheartening to see a civilized "free" state resort to aggressive internet content control for the commercial interest of it's leader. Somehow it feels much more Chinese than Italian.
Anyway, that's enough of my soapbox. More geek to come to prevent me from going mad over stupid DNS filtering policies here in Italy.
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CafeNinja
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