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UK Court Orders Block of Three Torrent Sites
angry tapir writes "A court in the U.K. has ordered key Internet service providers in the country to block three torrent sites on a complaint from music labels including EMI Records and Sony Music. The High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, ordered six ISPs including Virgin Media, British Telecommunications and British Sky Broadcasting to block H33t, Kickass Torrents and Fenopy."
That would be my first thought, except i'm still doing fine with piratebay. Y'know, the one they blocked ages ago which definitely doesn't have numerous easy to find proxies that make such rulings pointless
If you're using a good torrent search engine it'll give you a whole list of sites that have the exact same content. I fail to see how this achieves anything
As far as I know none of these have been shut down by authorities since TPB itself was banned in the country.
TPB is not banned in the UK. A handful of ISPs are banned from letting their users access it directly (IIRC, the list is: BT, Virgin, O2, TalkTalk and Sky). Fortunately the UK has local loop unbundling and easy migration between service providers, so you can just move to one that isn't banned.
We already did this one four days ago:
High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block More Torrent Sites.