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BT Starts Blocking the Pirate Bay

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-free-movies-for-you dept.

judgecorp writes "The UK's largest ISP, BT, has obeyed a court order to block The Pirate Bay, following similar moves by five other service providers, after complaints by music trade body BPI. The Pirate Bay says it can continue regardless through workarounds. From the article: 'BT has started blocking access to The Pirate Bay, becoming the sixth major ISP to prevent access to the file-sharing service. It follows blocks enforced by Orange, Virgin, Sky, TalkTalk and O2, after they all obeyed a court order made in April. BT, which has been in ongoing discussions with trade body the BPI over how it would carry out a block, had not been hit with such an order until this week.'"

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  1. All the king's men by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    These poor retards actually think they're fighting a successful action against "the pirates".
    And what say we?

    Harrrrr

  2. IPv6 too? by lemur3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I noticed after the recent ipv6 thing that visiting TPB will show a little thing at the bottom of the page indicating that im accessing it using ipv6..

    changing DNS servers is easy enough for most anyone.. id imagine that they are blocking IPs ...

    is access via ipv6 a thing they are blocking ?

  3. Re:Fucking morons. by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    A prophetic summary of the comments to come?

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    And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
  4. Things that won't be said: by Lord_of_the_nerf · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Gosh, now that it's mildly inconvenient to download things for free, I'm going to have to go to HMV for all my media needs!'

    'If only there was another torrent site. But the internet couldn't possibly support TWO!'

    'Wow, with all this extra money coming in from ex-pirates, we should begin transferring these extra profits onto THE ARTISTS!'

  5. Gets me every time... by drkstr1 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Am I the only one who gets confused when this company comes up in a storry related to Bit Torrent? It's gotten me a few times before, but this one really got me good. "BT starts blocking Pirate Bay" ... Da' fuck did I just read?

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  6. Re:Will it work? by c0lo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can any BT subscriber comment on weather

    Sure s/he can. In UK, commenting on weather is very much like "Can I buy you a drink?" in US.

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    Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
  7. Re:Will it work? by MountainMan101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oi! It's going to be 30C this weekend.....

    15C on Saturday and 15C on Sunday!