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UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies

Posted by Soulskill on from the slowly-winning-the-war dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several UK Internet providers have quietly added a list of new sites to their secretive anti-piracy blocklists. Following in the footsteps of Sky, the first ISP to initiate a proxy blockade, Virgin, BT and several other providers now restrict access to several torrent site proxies. The surprise isn't really that proxies have been added to the blocklist, but that the music industry and ISPs are failing to disclose which sites are being banned."

2 of 82 comments (clear)

  1. Block all proxies? by Karganeth · · Score: 5, Funny

    When will they begin to block general proxies, as they can be used to access blocked sites?

  2. DO NOT fuck with my seeders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's an open secret that about 75% of english-language TV worth watching, comes from the UK. I don't care how much the UK government works against the interest of its own citizens, but interfering with the cappers' ability to get their video to me, is anti-American. And Americans don't take kindly to other governments having anti-American policies. Fucking with me, is my government's job.

    It's open season on Redcoats. PART 2, BIATCH!