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The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs

Posted by Unknown on from the culture-police dept.

hypnosec writes "The Pirate Bay's artist promotion platform (the Promo Bay), despite being perfectly legal, is being blocked by several UK Internet service providers including BT, and Virgin Media. The Promo Bay was launched this week as a promotion platform for content creators like filmmakers and musicians enabling them to showcase their talent and work to thousands of people across the web. Even though the idea is novel, The Promo Bay has somehow found itself on a block list alongside the Pirate Bay."

6 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. Re:hum..... by MrWeelson · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are two different websites.

    http://thepromobay.co.uk/ looks to be a proxy for TPB as others have said and isn't blocked.
    http://thepromobay.org/ is blocked

  2. Re:hum..... by MrWeelson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Curses.
    The second URL should of course be http://promobay.org/

  3. Re:If you're affected by _KiTA_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    lol. you're naive. Looks like you never actually read an ISP contract. The only thing guaranteed in it is that you pay the ISP. Everything else is at the discretion of the ISP.

    Only in the US. The UK and rest of the EU have sane consumer protection laws.

  4. I'm on BT and I can see it. by Duds · · Score: 3, Informative

    So if they're blocking it might be pure DNS since I use OpenDNS.

  5. OK for me on Virgin by dhaen · · Score: 1, Informative

    I can see it and it has a link to a Pirate Bay proxy. Seems like the story is bullshit.

  6. Re:Same IP by advantis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Replying to myself because I just got the brilliant idea to see if BT aren't actually hijacking DNS itself, making me look like an idiot. Well... they succeeded:

    $ dig +trace thepiratebay.org
    #snip#
    thepiratebay.org. 3600 IN A 194.71.107.50

    $ dig +trace promobay.org
    #snip#
    promobay.org. 3600 IN A 108.59.2.74

    Promobay.org works once I add its IP to /etc/hosts.

    Why are BT hijacking the DNS for promobay.org? I have no idea, but a judge might be interested.

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