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London cops cuff 20-year-old man for unblocking blocked websites

Fuh Quit
Pint

Kicking and Screaming

That's how the industry needs to be dragged into the 21st century.

Let's look back in time a little.....where DVDs were once released in certain geographical regions even before a movie might hit the theatres elsewhere in the world. Result: region-free DVD players and lots of personally-imported DVDs. It took a few years but finally, it's more of a global playing field.

The Game of Thrones problem is also a good example. Everyone wants it but it's released in a specific place on a specific network...so gets pirated something rotten.

Today's society doesn't want to wait for what they want. If you don't provide people with that, they're now empowered to get what they want right now. So the industry needs to change and meet the expectations and demands of the consumer. And this sort of activity is helping with that shift.

What confuses me is why this bloke is doing this - is he running a "piratebay proxy" (don't Google such things, it may lead to theft!! :D)

Beer. As in free. All beer should also be free....email me some :D

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