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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."

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  1. Attn: Everyone. We're blocking you from... by SeaFox · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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.

    Unless there's some law saying they have to disclose it why would they? Really, there's no surprise here. If you were running an ISP would you make a big deal of announcing all the sites your customers can't access on your service?

    1. Re:Attn: Everyone. We're blocking you from... by game+kid · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Exactly. They're not "failing to disclose which sites are being banned", they're succeeding in not disclosing which sites are being banned. This is by design and intention, not some consequence of an "ecosystem".

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