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Brazil Regulator Claims "80% of Pirate TV Boxes" Were Blocked Last Week * TorrentFreak
  • I don't trust those numbers given that my TV box is still working, my neighbour's TV box is still working, and nothing changed.

    Anatel is a mafia LARPing as a very, very incompetent regulator.

  • Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked
  • There have also been several reports suggesting that traffic to domains decreased after blockades were implemented. This seems logical since blocked sites should be harder to reach. However, new research [...] suggests that’s not always true.

    Perhaps Streisand effect? "They're blocking it, so it's probably good. I can find stuff there."

    The report doesn’t offer any hard conclusions, but MUSO informs TorrentFreak that if these traffic trends say anything about the success of site blocking, Russia and Korea are the most effective.

    Perhaps availability? I've seen plenty pirate sites in Russian, even not actively looking for them; to the point that it made learning Cyrillic useful for me.

  • Free market innovation at its finest
  • Yup, pretty much. People do the same with other authors too, not just in economy. (Machiavelli comes to my mind.) Except that for economy you always have this bullshit in the defence of someone's interests, that may or may not be the one babbling it.

  • Free market innovation at its finest
  • The hand of the free market has Parkinson's.