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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
They are.
The order isn't about blocking static sites or taking them down, but forcing Canadian ISPs to dynamically block them based on intelligent policies and rules basically - their previous attempt to block them statically failed when they just changed their IPs and they had to spent weeks getting another court order again.
If this goes through, there will still be ways to use VPNs or darkweb proxies.
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It's "through" already. The Court Order exists and is extant and likely will be used for Game 1 of the Finals. I'll be testing.
The question is whether the "smart user" can get around the block. Merely using a VPN may not prove good enough (but we'll see). Depends on how deep the packet inspection launched by the #BigTelecom companies is.
There is a highly secret file (known in the industry as the "bot file" or "STB file") which the CRTC has used as a piledriver to push this on behalf of the Telcos/ISPs....who just also happen to be the owners of the actual media licenses.
It is this concentration of ownership that has given rise to the blocking order -- the folks "owning the licenses" and "blocking the access" are one and the same.