China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites

frogger writes "China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently, however, several reports came in from China indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine Baidu."

Comments

Re:Censorship?

[Fourier404]

Yeah, just the other day I tried to go to http://asdlfjkas/ and got redirected to google. It's time for a revolution!

Re:So, what have they found?

[Toe, The]

If they were more clever, they would still allow torrents to look like they are working... but they would always just result in a download of a two-hour Mao-Is-Cool propaganda movie.

Re:So, what have they found?

[ronocdh]

in France, while on business trips, you assume you are being bugged and information will go to your local competition

Not flaming, but can I have a source for such practices, or are you speaking purely anecdotally? I find it very interesting. I've spent a considerable amount of time in Germany (as an American) and never experienced this.