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No Pirate Bay for Comcast Customers

Posted by timothy on from the blame-brownian-motion dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a PC World article, according to which "The Pirate Bay is unavailable for customers of Comcast, even as the torrent site remains online for other users. Problems began early Thursday morning, when several Comcast users told TorrentFreak that they were having issues with The Pirate Bay. Commenters at Techland and Engadget are confirming that they can't access the site." Right now, I'm on a Comcast connection in Pennsylvania, and get an "Ooops, could not connect" message when I try to reach The Pirate Bay.

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  1. Re:Internet Censorship begins with Comcast by MyFirstNameIsPaul · · Score: 1, Troll

    Censorship can only be performed by a government. Comcast is practicing private property rights.

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  2. Re:Inevitable by g0bshiTe · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm glad I live in a country that doesn't censor what media I chose to frequent... oh wait nvm.

    Now disregarding the fact that it is a torrent sharing site, and casting aside the whole p2p / piracy issue, which I do realize is what is at the heart of this matter. This is blatant censorship. If they get away with this and this country continues to seize domains without legal backing (read a warrant), what will be next?

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