There is an old (on the Internet) saying; the web interprets censorship as damage and simply routes round. This is a key point as the internet was designed to route around the damages caused by a nuclear strike - so routing around censorship is child's play. While the technical routing around damage/censorship is one thing, how people respond is not dissimilar;

This is an interesting article worth a read. One of the people behind The Pirate Bay is trying to apply the same ideas they used regarding sharing content to the income side of distribution:

Defining what a network is, is a huge topic.  It is one I engage with to some extent in my research and you can boil a network down to two components - links and nodes.  The beginnings and ends of the network is a more complex matter.  For example with the Internet, it is less one big network and more a series of networks united by common protocols.  (There is a good discussion of mapping networks using Actor-Network Theory in chapter 4 of Murdoch's book Post-Structuralist Geography.  But networks ar

I've been made aware of a new torrent indexing website, TorrentFactory.org - it's interesting as a development as it seems clear that the PirateBay is under severe threat this year - so the question arises; what will replace it?  I don't mean this question in the sense of what will replace it as the the bogey-man of copyright, I mean the question more in a technological sense; where next for torrent indexing.  I mean this beca

Getting back to the question of if there is a technical solution that would ever be able to stop copyright violations on p2p, a couple of interesting blog posts that might back my eariler hypothesis that it is simply not possible to stop.  First off is the results from a study into anonymizing service use in Sweden.

After writing about, not the 'why' of new laws aimed at curbing piracy online, but asking about the 'if' - I was very interested to read in the current issue of MCV (556) a quote by Namco Bandai UK marketing manager David Miller;

There is another story in the media about the ongoing debate about what (if anything) the government should be doing in response to online piracy;

A rift has opened between music's creators and its record labels, with a broad alliance of musicians, songwriters and producers fiercely criticising the business secretary Lord Mandelson's plans to cut off the broadband connections of internet users who illegally download music.