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British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic

Posted by timothy on from the that-which-is-forbidden dept.

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.""

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  1. Testing if the ISP is banning TPB by Dark$ide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Testing if the ISP is banning TPB by niftydude · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Either that, or a Streisand effect: A whole bunch of brits wondering what this pirate bay thingy in the papers is about, and going to take a look.

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  2. Re:Three minutes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    3 minutes? It's just a case of putting an "s" after http.

  3. Re:Oh you got me... by NardoPolo88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now you've done it. If the media companies reads this they are going to find out there is more than 1 torrent site.

  4. Re:Three minutes by DJ+Particle · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/ is apparently what they're using now.

  5. Re:hmm... by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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  6. Re:Metaphor doesn't work! by chilvence · · Score: 5, Funny

    The pirate bay keeps on.... 'arbouring! 'Arrrr!