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UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-not-surf-list dept.

Barence writes "Five of Britain's biggest ISPs have been ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay. Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media have been told to block access to the site. Britain's biggest ISP, BT, has been given a few further weeks to 'consider its position.' Music lobby group, the BPI, welcomed the move, saying music creators 'deserve to be paid for their work just like everyone else' and calling for those who use The Pirate Bay to illegally download content to 'explore the many digital music services operating ethically and legally in the UK.'"

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  1. how to unblock by Dave+Whiteside · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-unblock-the-pirate-bay-111004/
    nuff said?

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    1. Re:how to unblock by caknuckle · · Score: 4, Informative

      http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-unblock-the-pirate-bay-111004/ nuff said?

      Since internet traffic itself is routed through the ISP's line's, are they sophisticated enough to block the IP ranges of the Pirate Bay, or would it be simple DNS blocking?

    2. Re:how to unblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      If other European countries are anything to go on, it'll just be a DNS level "block". Which means I'm laughing, as I use Virgin Media but already use someone else's DNS resolvers.

    3. Re:how to unblock by swilver · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's even easier.

      1) Install Opera.
      2) Activate "turbo mode".
      3) Browse as usual.

      Happy downloading.

    4. Re:how to unblock by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Informative

      The distillation of it is to use Google's DNS, or some other public DNS system.

      Of course, the best answer if you are sensitive to this kind of thing is to run your own resolver, which isn't all that hard.

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    5. Re:how to unblock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      They haven't had a "torrent server" or tracker for quite a while anyway, so it'll make no difference at all.

    6. Re:how to unblock by makomk · · Score: 4, Informative

      Pretty much all the ISPs have a very effective content filter originally instated in the name of blocking child porn - it uses a transparent proxy to intercept and block requests at the HTTP level - and I think it's that specifically that they've been ordered to use to block The Pirate Bay. At the time, the ISPs and politicians behind this scheme insisted that it was only targetted at child porn and there wasn't any kind of slippery slope, whilst opponents pointed out that the courts could force them to block other kinds of sites once they had the infrastructure in place.

    7. Re:how to unblock by SilentChasm · · Score: 3, Informative

      Cleanfeed

  2. Re:This will work well by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can search google for filetype:torrent FFS.

    And TPB has legitimate purposes. I've watched several free movies like Pioneer One and The Yes Men Fix the World, as well as free music like Blalock's IRP, an album from an artist named Sosa that I've never heard of before, and all kinds of things.

    Don't get me wrong, that's a small minority of the links up there (since it doesn't host any files, duh) but it's not all links to pirated material.

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  3. Re:Oh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Oh, no! I'm being called out for my straw man!"