hardly have anything to do with combating piracy. its just a step in internet censorship

If we allow them to do this unopposed, you can bet next they are going to block all pornographic website on morals ground. Hell they might even start blocking any website or blogs that oppose the government on grounds that it threatens the harmony of the country.

This is the very reason why many people in other country strongly oppose any government plans on having internet filter or other control over websites. Once you allow the government to take one step, they are not going to stop. The internet is something that no government should have any control over.

   

Combating piracy? Lol. Whether this is combating piracy or not, blocking websites is THE WRONG way to do it. It is a stupid and ineffective way to combat piracy.

A lot of the websites aren't even piracy specific. They're online lockers for online storage.

The sad fact is that our government have been doing this for 3 - 4 years. I fear for the future as we move down this slippery slope of censorship. I really do.

Movie sites still accessible

By SUBASHINI SELVARATNAM
bytz@thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: The 10 file-sharing sites ordered to be blocked are still accessible to web surfers.

A check yesterday evening showed that nine of the sites could be accessed and their services utilised while the remaining one, www.duckload.com, was down due to technical difficulties. But it was also not blocked.

The websites are supposedly among the most visited by Malaysians to illegally download movies.

It had been reported that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) sent a letter on May 30 to all Internet service providers, ordering that the 10 sites be blocked.

The letter, among others, stated that the websites were being blocked for breaching Section 41 of the Copyright Act, which deals with pirated content.

When contacted, several ISPs were unable to comment on why the MCMC’s order had yet to be carried out.

They risk being penalised for not complying with the order.

Under Section 242 of the Commmunications and Multi­media Act, they can be fined RM100,000, jailed for not more than two years, or both.

A protest by local websurfers over the site-blocking has been growing on Twitter and Facebook. Their number came up to almost 12,000 over the past three days.

sos salah reporting

* p/s :the reporter is reporting her article with some misinformation and wrongly title. don't she know is the site is a file hosting and not a movie site. 
duckload is not down but the server was confiscated in raid in Europe with several people arrested .

celcom broadband already blocked warez-bb.
openDNS also cannot help