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Also, taking down something that also exist on the TOR network as a onion address would be hard :
The Pirate Bay

And speaking of search engines take-downs :
Duck Duck Go, too is available as a onion address on the Tor network.
So similarily in the "not going to happen" category.

(And in an almost completely missing the point kind of irony, I've read that Facebook is also present as an onion on TOR, probably due to country where it is banned. I have no idea if the address is legit, though - too lazy and don't care enough to check it).

The flip side is that if any one of the exit points are monitored by an entity, and your browser traffic can be fingerprinted, they now have you on the radar, and can obtain data matching your fingerprint to a person from sites that collect the data (like online payment sites and banks, and ad aggregators that are partners with shopping sites).

This is explicitly addressed by TOR :
- TOR itself constantly changes routes. An entity that doesn't control all or a very large fraction of all exit nodes will only see occasional glimpses of out traffic.
- You are definitely not alone on TOR, some people simply use it for general anonymity or just for shit and giggles, meaning that your traffic will by mixed with traffic of lots of other people, even on the same exit-node
- TOR is a high latency network (multiple jump point)
- All of the above simultaneously make very hard to correlate input and output traffic.
Which is one way to diminish risks of de-anonymisation.

TOR also provides package with a Tor Browser, which is a special built of Firefox consigured to be as un-noticeable as possible (its fingerprints match an excessively large amount of other browsers), and includes additional measures to block other risk (Flash is blocked and thus a flash App could not be used to de-anonymise).
Means that any information that an entity could collect during the short glimpses on one of its controlled exit node will perfectly match hundreds of thousands of other browsers. (You can't rely on a trick like "which of your users have a browser that has the late 90s font Quake.TTF installed ? Which of these browser has Raetho-Romansh as a listed requested language ?", etc.)
This makes it horribly difficult to use fingerprints to match an user.

Again, If you're not hunted by the NSA, the FSB or the Mossad, chances are you won't be found on TOR.

Last and third peculiarity : .onion addresses.
Some server are entirely on the TOR network and do not require any exit-node to be accessed.
The Piratebay is a known example with http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/
Another one is DuckDuckGo with http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/

Traffic to these addresses will NEVER leave the TOR network and cannot be witnessed by adversary-controlled exit-nodes.
As such, that's yet a third way de-anonymising is prevented.
Also, these addresses will prevent DNS-based access blocks. (They do not even point to an IP address, DNS are useless). So no matter how often someone tries to block Pirate Bay at the ISP level, the .onion address will be unblockable.

Basically people will just browse to http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ instead of https://thepiratebay.org and completely ignore whatever restriction the local government is trying to put.

Bell Canada knows that the majority of us Canadians aren't savvy enough or motivated to even find pirate sites in the first place, never mind installing TOR and/or using a VPN. This smacks to me of the attention-getting, politically-motivated posing that one expects from the media empire mouthpieces of companies like Bell. That "no judicial oversight" caveat seems ripe for all kinds of abuse that may have nothing to do with combatting piracy per se.

OTOH, maybe there are more pirates here in Canada than I thought, although I don't know any outside of my tech-centric friends.

And conversly, given the current age,
where technologies such as VPNs and Tor exist,
what do they expect to actually work ?

Basically people will just browse to http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ instead of https://thepiratebay.org and completely ignore whatever restriction the local government is trying to put.

Pretty useless to link articles without linking the actual top10: http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/...
(alternate link may also work: https://thepiratebay.org/top/2... )

It's at the 6th place at the moment.

sing my own DNS gave me also access to The Pirate Bay

An alternative would be to use TOR, and use PirateBay's .onion address : http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay has .onion address on TOR, and that one was still running during the whole situation.

(It can't technically be blocked that easily.)

given that The Pirate Bay has a .onion address that is still working no matter what,
such kind of block could actually increase awareness of Tor and increase its usage.

(Which in turn is good for Tor : The more the traffic, and the more the relay nodes, the better).

Nothing disappeared, it is just moving to new premises.

http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/

They also have a .onion address ( http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ ) so you can simply fire up your tor proxy, and it works flawlessly.

Also again, like all the previous times, the tor .onion address ( http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ ) continues to work flawlessly, no matter what, as long as you have a tor proxy/tor browser/whatever running.

Opera 12.16 Build 1860 platform Linux, Windows, Mac OS X. Click disable search suggestions. Delete google. Set outgoing to https://duckduckgo.com/ and customise settings by typing into the address bar opera:config#UserPrefs|CustomUser-Agent and so on.

Disable auto update and disable fraud and malware protection in the browser. Heavy snooping from websites like Slashdot, will use Java to guess your operating system.

To access http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ via web you will have to use the Tor Browser, and type in that address in the address bar. And build up your list from their lists and track the other lists until you have a massive pirate list.

You will discover that once you can have the software you think you wanted you realise it's just not very good and not really worth having. And once you have watched 100 Hollywood films you find out that they are all the same basically and you are just wasting your life and killing brain cells. And you will end up with brain death, and answering chat bots. the situation in which a person's brain stops working and they join the Slashdot bots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Meanwhile, http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ continues to work (as long as your have a Tor proxy running, obviously)

Note: It's a Tor .onion service.

Thus you need your tor installation up and running.

But once it's running, yes it does work.
And can't directly be taken down.

Note: Some onion proxies like http://tor2web.org/ *DO* block ThePirateBay. It's not ThePirateBay server being down, it's the relay service refusing it on some legal grounds.

You need your actual tor node to be running and access it directly without relying on external 3rd party relays.

From their blog:
"For those of you that wants to connect to TPB using TOR the old .onion address is back up and running.
http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ "

meanwhile:
http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/

still works and has never been taken down.

(And maybe they also have a .bit namecoin and a few other trendy stuff)

Something like this?