2008/12/9 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
Not unexpected. The few cases we know who've previously been targeted
have other bigger concerns (rapidshare with about 20 different legal
issues and 4chan is well 4chan) or are not going to make a fuss
because they know the IWF is right.
My prediction: they've been turned to mincemeat
every media interview
they've done on the subject, we've looked like stars. Everyone
despises them. They aren't standing up too well under scrutiny. So I
suspect they'll quietly unblock Wikipedia and not block again without
at least telling us first.
If that was the case they would have pulled the block at noon.
The censorship mechanism will stay in place
- the ISPs feel they aren't free not to sign up to this "voluntary"
scheme - and probably be refined to see if they can block sites like
us again without breaking everything as they did this time.
Not all ISPs have signed up. While I feel that the IWF's aims could be
better archived through more international police cooperation their
overall aims are something most people would support.
It is possible the IWF will try to make the decision
stand. In which
case, party on.
That effectively gives people a weapon to mess up the traffic to any
site they feel like messing with (the image is on imageshack, it
wasn't on youtube last I looked but would not be hard to get it on
there myspace and facebook would not present major problems) really
any site that allows user uploads is a potential target.
--
geni