National IP-Blocks and OR

[Matthew MacGregor]

Is there even a remote chance that the ISPs will take this on board and not 
tell GEMA where they can put the suggestion?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristian Koehntopp" <kris at xn--khntopp-90a.de>
To: <or-talk at freehaven.net>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:17 AM
Subject: National IP-Blocks and OR


>
> -----
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61331
>
> GEMA asks (german) Providers to block websites
>
> The german Society for musical production and reproduction rights (GEMA) 
> asks
> 42 german access providers to block multiple websites. These are portals 
> that
> offer links to film and music files for the P2P protocol eDonkey, the 
> german
> language sites Eselfilme, Goldesel, Saugstube, Audio-Esel and 
> Power-Portal.
>
> ...
>
> ------
>
> While it would be a mistake to advertise OR as a tool to circumvent this
> (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050627130232598), at the 
> moment
> it is completely random if a user of OR is subject to such a ban or not.
>
> Such IP blocks are usually byproducts of national legislation. Would it be
> useful to include the nationality of a node as part of its family 
> declaration
> and select preferred exit nodes based on them being in a certain 
> nationality
> family or not being in them?
>
> Kristian
>
> -- 
> Kristian =?iso-8859-15?q?K=F6hntopp?= <kris at xn--khntopp-90a.de>
> 



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