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British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic
New submitter sleiper writes "Today sees UK ISPs begin to block access for their subscribers to the Pirate Bay URL. Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and O2 have already blocked access and the UK's biggest provider, BT, are currently reviewing their legal position. This access ban however has seen The Pirate Bay's traffic spike to 12 million more page views than their previous daily record. It seems obvious that a message is being sent, that this type of censorship is not the way forward. The Pirate Bay keeps on sailing.""
I suspect most of the traffic is folks testing whether their ISP is imposing the censorship and if it is doing that testing whether proxies and/or VPN and/or OpenDNS/GoogleDNS or other methods circumvents that censorship.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
3 minutes? It's just a case of putting an "s" after http.
A spike is pointy. If it wasn't, I couldn't drive one into the heart of a vampire. It can point either direction like any pointy thing can, but is canonically used to indicate a temporary increase, such as a spike in power usage during a heat wave. Nobody would expect this to mean a decrease.
I couldn't possibly find another site to replace it.
The US government is still trying to understand why wikileaks is still up.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
The Pirate Bay keeps on sailing.
I get what you're going at and all, but this metaphor doesn't work. A bay can't sail. If you said something like "The pirate ship sails on!" we would still get the reference to the logo.
I can't wait till the next step, blocking access to websites that provide instructions on how to access the pirate bay. Then they have an excuse to censor anything they like.
I really don't support censorship, but I'm afraid it has to get much worse, before it wakes people up to what is going on.
Streisand-effect at full force!
The OP is probably a hunt and peck typist.
Summation 2
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/ is apparently what they're using now.
I'm more concerned with what they will start blocking now they have a precedent, wouldn't surprise me in ten years if you have only government licensed sites and a seriously crazy darknet going on, I think they'll come to regret trying to censor when they realise they have lost all control . I'm on virgin and had a check, yes t's blocked but it took me ten seconds to be able to access it anyway.
Really? What if my representatives are behaving exactly like I want them to behave? That gets me 3 out of 535 votes in the House and Senate. Why am I responsible for the other 532 representatives that I can't influence one way or the other with my single vote?
(2) For those who did vote for a president who makes/made terrible decisions, they couldn't have possibly known all the actions the future president was going to take just from his campaign.
It should be widely known by now that the two main parties are pure garbage. There is no excuse for continuing to vote for them.
Go FUCK yourself, you anti-american scum! I'm so sick of people who don't like what our government is doing, taking it out on the American people. You're just a retarded, uneducated loser!
Maybe if we did something about our retarded, uneducated government, we wouldn't get flamed for it?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
The US is very proud of being a democracy, the people are ultimately responsible for their leaders actions
No we're not. It's the leaders who are responsible for their own actions. And they are willing participants in a conspiracy to keep on screwing us over by concealing their own actions and making us believe their way is the only way. This is not a democracy. I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't a democracy.
Are you on the light version (?Connect)? One Sky package is completely BT administered and Sky just supply branding, billing admin and take a cut.
[FUCK BETA]
The old, using google translate as a proxy works best and is suitable
for non-techies. HINT Translate the web page from Esperanto to English
There is also this lot I've copied and pasted
https://piratereverse.info/
http://malaysiabay.org/
http://thepiratemirror.org/
http://thepiratebay.ee/
In the mean time, get on the phone to Virgin now and complain.
Hint Call the number to open a new account, you will get though quicker.
Oh and lameass filter, fuck off with too many junk characters OK?
Do I have to type this bollocks to dilute the number of junk characters
in one post or something. FFS I've wrote worse code and that is saying something. Feck arse drink girls feck arse drink girls feck arse drink
Anyone quoted by a reporter knows how little they understand
Don't believe what you read is the truth.
Chill out why don't you? Get it out of your system - go an invade a country or something...
In the US, you get to choose from two parties who are basically the same on all but a handful of issues. In the UK you have three parties, but otherwise the situation remains.
If enough us "waste" our vote, there will be a third-party candidate.
It's a right, but it doesn't have to be. That's the problem -- once people have power, they don't want to give it up; the common man included. Maybe it's time to say "Hey, giving us all the right to vote isn't working out so well." I'm not saying it's the only answer, but we already take away people's right to vote (felons), and that's far more arbitrary and capricious. I think, at the very least, it's worth studying, and it should be relatively easy to trial in a setting with no real-world implications. Even if it's found to be inferior, I believe a government based on reason and science would be more successful than one where decisions are made based on nothing and everything all at once, which is what we have. It's telling that we don't trust democracy for *anything* of real importance, except securing against tyranny, and I think there may be more effective protections, especially considering its failure in that regard.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...”
“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”
The only wasted vote is a vote for the Democrats or a vote for the Republicans.