As I understand it Sky is one of those ISPs which have refused to take action against those people downloading illegal content. In fact just a couple of weeks ago the cases against hundreds of people for downloading illegal music has collapsed, or rather the firm of solicitors which was dealing with almost every case in the UK has now gone in to administration and dropped all cases. In response Sky and other ISPs have come out and said that they don't want action to be taken against individuals. Neadless to say the Judge was not a happy man when the senior partner from the solicitors said he wanted to drop the case. The Judge has said that they may be liable for a huge amount of compensation to those people they persued due to the stress and inconvenience. Not sure if Sky and most other organisations, including film companies would be to threatened by blind people downloading the audio tracks from movies. That said, most of the films sounded like they were audio described by B Sky B so perhaps they would be a bit more keen to take action.
Peter-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 9:28 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice website As far as I understand it, blind mice are breaking the law by hosting illegal downloads, and downloaders are breaking the law by downloading. Now, it's not for me to judge people so I won't, but from a technical perspective, given that it appears to be connected more to the ISP being used, than the geographical location, I think the following might be a possibility: Movie studios might have put pressure on ISPs to block downloading from blind mice. Some may have complied, some may have ignored the request.Given that blind mice is one static location, blocking it would be easy to do.
It's the only reason I can think for this to have happened. Here's what I've collated from the list: Colin is on BT, and CAN get to the site. I am on Plusnet (a subsidiary of BT) and CANNOT get on the site. Maureen is on Blueyonder, and CANNOT get to it. Peter is on Sky, and cannot get to it. Ari is in South Africa and cannot get to it. In fact, looking back through the list, I think Colin is the only person from anywhere to be able to get to it! Any others for the list? On 27 February 2011 21:14, Maureen Dyer <md012a9716@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry, please ignore my previous post as it was meant for my nephew. All the best Mo Maureen Dyer wrote:Henry, I thought I'd send you this thread. I don't understand what they mean by google cash and bing but no doubt you do. Ibrahim Gucukoglu wrote:Hi Peter.Try "blind mice movie vault" as a search query, it should be in among thefirst handful of results. All the best, Ibrahim. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Holdstock" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 2:12 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice websiteHi, I've just tried it with Bing doing a search for 'Blindmicemart movievault' but couldn't find the exact page. Only one was cached and thatwouldn't come up. It's probably something I'm doing so if you could tell me what you are searching for and how many headings down the correct result isI'd be grateful. Thanks Peter -----Original Message----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:01 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice website Hi Peter.I've just checked on bing, and the movie vault according to the cash wasupdated on the 23rd of February, and that's what its saying on their webpage. I did a little experimenting and bing seems to cash a little more often than does Google for this particular website, so I suggest giving that a try if you must access a later version of the page. All the best, Ibrahim. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Holdstock" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 12:42 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice websiteHi, you said though that the site is almost always up to date on thecached version. Are you seeing the same as me, i.e. the blindmicemart cachedversion is saying the movies were updated on 20 Nov? Peter -----Original Message----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:48 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice website Hi Peter. Well, since I cant (in common with most others it would seem) access the main site directly, the cash is the only option I have at the moment, possibly the only option we unfortunates will only ever have. Unless someone who is versed in website design or who simply has the time to host a complete list of all the films and their sendspace locations comes forward that is. All the best, Ibrahim. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Holdstock" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:45 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice websiteActually this gets stranger because the google site says the page waslast cached on 22 Feb, but the page it's cached says the films were last updated on 20 Nov and I know they have updated since because I've downloadedmovies. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Peter Holdstock Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:38 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice website I tried the google cache of the page and that wouldn't load either. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 10:53 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice website Hi Mo. I'm using the Google's cash of the page, its almost always up to date and I've never had a problem downloading the files as they're all on sendspace. All the best, Ibrahim. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Dyer" <md012a9716@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 10:08 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Still unable to access 4 blind mice websiteSame here. The problem has got to be their end but they're not replying to emails. All the best Mo Peter Holdstock wrote:I've still not got access either. can't understand why some can and some can't, and it's not related to geography. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Mohammed Adeel Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:35 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Still unable to access 4 blind mice website Hi, I'm still unable to access the 4 blind mice webpage. I read a fewmessages on here about it a few days back. Wondering if there's anything Ican do on my computer or if it's an ISP issue? 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