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The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy
imhassan tips us to news that The Pirate Bay has been blocked in Italy. Other attempts to block the popular P2P site have been somewhat less than successful. From TorrentFreak:
"Pirate Bay's IPs and the domain name are inaccessible, as they are blocked by ISPs all over the country. Whether these blocks will be very effective, however, is doubtful, since The Pirate Bay has already announced several countermeasures. An insider working at an Internet provider in Italy told TorrentFreak that all the relevant large access ISPs in Italy have complied with the request to block the popular BitTorrent tracker, which was sent out yesterday. Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same prosecutor who is responsible for the Pirate Bay block."
Tor is the answer to everything.
Use Tor to access the trackers. Problem solved.
Our fine Italian friends can still access TPB at labaia.org. Here's to hoping for as little irritation as possible.
labaia.org is also much shorter to type.
I am in Italy and I can surf to Pirate Bay right now. My ISP is Tiscali.
And have they managed to block every proxy server that can connect to every other proxy server that can see and connect to TPB? It just sounds like more press grandstanding to this observer.
.tor files upon request? Got that blocked yet?
And how about an ICQ that serves up torrent files? The file you need to get from TPB just isn't that big.
And how about IMBF (Information Must Be Free) people offering to e-mail in
Strikes me that shutting down TPB countywide (unless you're China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or the like) isn't easy, or likely.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
They've already changed their IP address and bought the domain name labaia.org for Italians to access the site. Seems very different from "absolutely nothing"
Had you said, "Mussolini's *daughter* is in politics", you would have been correct.
When ideas fail, words become very handy.
They changed the name, but it was the same party, consisting of all the people who weren't hanging from lamp posts by the end of the war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Movement%E2%80%93National_Right
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
I can confirm I can access the site (I'm in Italy, my ISP is Fastweb). Just in case it is blocked by some Italian ISP, it seems that labaia.org is a new alias. ;-)
From the webpage:
Fascist state censors Pirate Bay
We're quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.
This time it's Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way - so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.
We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.
We have already changed IP for the website - that makes it work for half the ISPs again. And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. And for the meanwhile - http://labaia.org/ works (La Baia means The Bay in Italian).
And please, everybody should also contact their ISP and tell them that this is not OK and that the ISPs should appeal. We don't want a censored internet! And the war starts here...
The Pirate Bay SSL proven ineffective: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=803927
OpenDNS.
Man. What a poor job they've done to block the website -- and still they can claim they did.
Suddenly, I love my country again!
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/123 or http://labaia.org/blog/123 for people in Italy
Copty and paste
(I sure hope they don't sue me for copyright infringement)
Fascist state censors Pirate Bay
We're quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.
This time it's Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way - so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.
We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.
We have already changed IP for the website - that makes it work for half the ISPs again. And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. And for the meanwhile - http://labaia.org works (La Baia means The Bay in Italian).
And please, everybody should also contact their ISP and tell them that this is not OK and that the ISPs should appeal. We don't want a censored internet! And the war starts here...
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I'm in the very heel of Italy, Puglia, and it's working swimmingly. Needless to say I am also on some random's open wifi connectiont too ;)
in the words of mario mario (yup... his last name's mario)
You're thinking of the Prime Minister. The president isn't involved in media companies.
And, since the usual RIAA fanbois usually pop up once you mention Tor, casting FUD to scare people away from it, here's the EFF's legal FAQ, and here's the Tor FAQ.
Also note carefully what the parent said, namely, "Use Tor to access the trackers". Tor is, by default, set up to disable bittorrent transfers, since it heavily loads the Tor network. Here's one article which well explains Why you shouldn't run bittorrent over Tor.
And if you look at the default exit node policies (see section 4.16 of the Tor FAQ), the standard bittorrent ports are explicitly rejected. So you really don't want to run bittorrent over Tor.
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker.
I semms like that Telecom, wich is italian n.1 priver, is just gibbering the DNS replay: A query for thepiratebay.org returns 127.0.0.1 . /etc/hosts should do:
So just a static record in you
# echo -e "83.140.176.200 thepiratebay.org\n83.140.176.156 torrents.thepiratebay.org" >> /etc/hosts
Or you (gentle italian reader) can just use a different DNS. Http is fine, so appears to be the peer to peer thing.
You know: it's not like I fell the need to download some copyrighted materials, it's just that _I_'m used to be the one who blocks things in my net, and I go mad when someone tricks my DNS (they did some other trash on those DNS some time ago as a sort of forwarder for mispelled domains: some one in there found a new toy and since then each day they play a new trick...).
Just grow a small amount in the front garden everyone will assume no one will be stupid enough to grow it so openly and will think its another plant. Bonus points for growing it among ferns that look like it as a friend of mine did.
The world will be a better place for most people if the freedom that generally exists on the Internet is preserved, but if that freedom is abused by a vocal minority, the rest of us will all get shafted by the consequences.
How can you call it freedom if it's removed if you take advantage of it? If I have freedom, you cannot remove it. If you can, it's not freedom. That's sort of the point.
TPB is not the enemy here. TPB is an indicator on how corrupt our political overlords are, especially in Italy. Once a fascists...
Don't be crazy anymore!