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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."

3 of 82 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Block all proxies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The order, as drafted, seems to compel this particular action, after the BPI inform them. Because they're dedicated reverse proxies and effectively therefore alternate addresses for the same site, the original order would seem to cover this.

    The order probably would not allow the blocking of a more general proxy.

  2. Solution. by AndyJ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Install Opera.
    Turn on turbo browsing mode (Icon bottom left.)

    PirateProxy.net now working again for me on Virgin.

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    Never be afraid to ask. Wisdom must be gathered before it can be given.
  3. there are many UK ISPs not blocking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This block only seems to affect the big ISPs like BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin. Many of the smaller companies aren't part of these schemes and aren't being targetted by the court orders. Just switch your business to one of them!