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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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everdrive ◴[24 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45006602[source]▶
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
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SlowTao ◴[24 Aug 25 21:19 UTC] No.45007881[source]▶
I suspect that in some places they might start requiring ID when purchasing large volumes of storage.

"Only a criminal would need 10 terabytes of storage!"

Something stupid like that.

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sockbot ◴[25 Aug 25 01:52 UTC] No.45009481[source]▶
It sounds just as unfair as including a levy on blank CDs paid to music copyright holders, regardless of how the CDs are used. But being unfair doesn't mean it can't happen in your country.
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1. diggan ◴[25 Aug 25 14:56 UTC] No.45014574[source]▶
Flashback to Sweden, around 2011 or so. Copyright owners convince the government to add a $/GB levy to digital storage mediums like USBs, just in case people would use it for storing copyrighted material. The kicker? Personally archiving copyrighted material to your personal storage is (was?) fully allowed by law, but somehow it went through anyways. Glad I don't live there anymore :)