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NEWS: UK Service Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Bay Site




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Kimiko_0



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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 3:50 pm Reply with quote
Goodbye internet freedom, hello web proxies Confused
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RyanSaotome



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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 3:53 pm Reply with quote
All that'll happen is that there will be a new UK oriented pirate website.
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marie1901



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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:35 pm Reply with quote
Kimiko_0 wrote:
Goodbye internet freedom, hello web proxies Confused


Got that right.
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Xanas



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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:04 pm Reply with quote
There are some nice VPN services out there these days, they will only grow faster.
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GrinfilledCelt



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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:45 pm Reply with quote
Bastids.
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Melicans



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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:49 pm Reply with quote
RyanSaotome wrote:
All that'll happen is that there will be a new UK oriented pirate website.


There are already several UK specific pirate sites I can think of; plus all of the multiple others in existence. Blocking the Pirate Bay is a small drop in the ocean considering how many other websites offer links to identical torrents.
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kusanagi-sama



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PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 11:23 pm Reply with quote
If you use your ISP's DNS servers, it will be blocked. Change your DNS to something like Google DNS or OpenDNS and there's less of a possibility it will be blocked
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Escaflowne2001



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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:45 am Reply with quote
So far only Virgin have actually blocked it. don't know when there meant to do it by.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:28 am Reply with quote
Italy already did this to Pirate Bay years ago.

And with use of magnet torrent links, there's less need for host trackers.
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Sunday Silence



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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:35 am Reply with quote
But how am I gonna watch Dowtown Abbey, Doctor Who, and Top Gear?
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 6:41 am Reply with quote
RyanSaotome wrote:
All that'll happen is that there will be a new UK oriented pirate website.

A brief investigation on a search engine, taking but a fleeting minute to complete, revealed a new and accessible domain for the website in question. It would seem that retaining an online presence has become a matter of principle for the website's owners.
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st_owly



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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:08 am Reply with quote
My ISP isn't covered by this ruling, so it makes no difference to me. This seems just like putting a sticking plaster over a severed artery. It looks like you're doing something, but it's a complete waste of time.
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DavidShallcross



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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:41 am Reply with quote
kusanagi-sama wrote:
If you use your ISP's DNS servers, it will be blocked. Change your DNS to something like Google DNS or OpenDNS and there's less of a possibility it will be blocked

I would have thought that the Court would have insisted on IP-layer blocking. Still not adequate, given proxies and tunnels.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:50 am Reply with quote
I'm amazed that The Pirate Bay is still operational. The court case was a couple of years ago, the staff were convicted, and I'm flabbergasted that the site wasn't shut down. I haven't even been there since the convictions since I just assumed it wasn't going to survive. At least, not in an illegal form.

Guess I was wrong.
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dragon695



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:38 pm Reply with quote
dtm42 wrote:
I'm amazed that The Pirate Bay is still operational. The court case was a couple of years ago, the staff were convicted, and I'm flabbergasted that the site wasn't shut down. I haven't even been there since the convictions since I just assumed it wasn't going to survive. At least, not in an illegal form.

Guess I was wrong.

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