AllofMP3 - Now even fewer Danes can see it

Let the internet be free and make it up to the user to decide where he wants to follow the laws or not.

Recently I wrote about how Tele2 in Denmark was ordered to block all access to AllofMP3.com. Tele2 started by obeying the ruling, then denied to follow it and then a couple of days ago they finally decided to obey the ruling permanently. Not a good choice if you ask me!

By that is not the worst. Now most of the largest ISPs in Denmark (Cybercity, TDC, Telia) has started to obey IFPI's ruling against Tele 2 too. This means that (my estimation) 80% of the Danish internet users cant see allofmp3.com anymore.

Or can they? It turns out that all of them just blocks the site by returning wrong IP's when using their DNS servers. This is probably the easiest blocking to get around and here is how:

Simply add the following to your hosts file:

87.242.93.250 allofmp3.com
87.242.93.250 www.allofmp3.com
83.222.8.230 ssl.allofmp3.com
83.222.8.222 img.allofmp3.com
83.222.8.222 css.allofmp3.com
83.222.8.231 account.allofmp3.com
83.222.8.229 music.allofmp3.com
83.222.8.221 covers.allofmp3.com
87.242.93.254 blogs.allofmp3.com


In linux you find your hosts file in
/etc/hosts
and in Windows you find it in
c:windows system32driversetchosts
(replace c:windows with the path of your windows).

So now you have full access to All of MP3 again. Whether the site is legal or not is up to you to decide - I simply dont like the fact that Denmark has begun to have internet cencurs like in China. Personally I do think that the page is illigal - especially after recent changes to the copyright laws in Russia that says that online music also is bound by copyright laws - which it wasnt before. This means that the argument about the online shop being legal in its home-country does not work anymore.
But as I said! this isn't really about whether allofmp3.com is illegal or not - its about whether we allow the lawinforcers to cencur us or not!
Here's a bit of links for the danish Audience of this blog:
IFPI: The fight against allofmp3.com continues
Tele2 blocks allofmp3.com permanently
IFPI: other ISPs are the next target
Cybercity to block Allofmp3.com
TDC to block Allofmp3

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