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The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades

Posted by timothy on from the speak-friend-and-enter dept.

hypnosec writes "The Pirate Bay, on its 10th anniversary, has released 'Pirate Browser,' which it claims would allow people to access The Pirate Bay and other such blocked sites. The 'Pirate Browser' is a fully functional browser that currently works with Windows. ... According to the Pirate Browser website, the browser is basically a bundled package consisting of the Tor client and Firefox Portable browser. The package also includes some tools meant for evading censorship in countries like UK, Finland, Denmark, and Iran among others."

2 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. As always... by djupedal · · Score: 5, Informative

    The internet sees any blockage as an outage and works to avoid it.

  2. What could have been pretty cool.... by mark-t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... is if the browser distributed any (unsecured) content which is currently loaded into a tab or window, in addition to any the inline media content such as images or embeded video all via bittorrent... potentially reducing the impact that "flash mobs" might have on websites to the extent that people adopt use of the browser.

    It'd be ideal, in my opinion, if someone developed an new protocol based on http that did something like that, but I don't think that's terribly likely to happen

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