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UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies
An anonymous reader tips news that six ISPs in the UK are now blocking sites that simply link to proxies for The Pirate Bay. This follows efforts from copyright holders to block access to the proxy sites themselves — which they've done to limited success through orders from the UK's High Court.
[R]estricting access to proxies did not provide a silver bullet either as new ones continue to appear. This week the blocking efforts were stepped up a notch and are now targeting sites that merely provide an overview of various Pirate Bay proxies. ... One of the other blocked sites, piratebayproxy.co.uk, doesn’t have any direct links to infringing material. Instead, it provides an overview of short Pirate Bay news articles while listing the URLs of various proxies on the side. Apparently, providing information about Pirate Bay proxies already warrants a spot on the UK blocklist. ... It is not a secret that the High Court orders give copyright holders the option to continually update the list of infringing domains. However, it’s questionable whether this should also include sites that do not link to any infringing material.
What if I link to sites that link to sites that link to proxies?
Doesn't the UK have some amazing slander and libel laws? Time for a lawsuit...
...and now Slashdt will be blocked for linking to the site linking to proxies of Piratebay that provides magnet links to..... tadaaaaa.... infringing content!
did they use patented algorithms to block those sites, like foxconn robots do for producing iphones?
Every site is linked to infringing material, somehow.
Perhaps they did not get the memo about the internet being a series of tubes.
Why don't they block google since it too returns a lot of torrents on its own?
Should not net-neutrality — accepted by European Parliament nearly a year ago — have prevented such (mis)treatment of certain IPs?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
This is a great idea. But what about the sites that link to sites that link to proxies? These ISPs just need to block those and their strategy will be perfect.
This is why we need some kind of distributed naming system that will lol at attempts made by evil regimes to censor information.
So what happens if I post a list here, UK ISPs block slashdot?
"Treating the symptom" is often considered a poor use of resources. And whack-a-mole doesn't even accomplish that. What's worse than "poor"?
Who wants to help me test their resolve by helping edit my new Wikipedia page, "List of Pirate Bay Proxy Sites"?
This is why we need some kind of distributed site location system that will lol at attempts made by evil regimes to censor information.
This is your chance. Terminate the contract. Deliberate failure to deliver internet access should be answered with deliberate "failure" to pay.
On a more serious note: The next wave of fascism to roll over Europe is going to be British.
Seriously, the UK has got to be the closest thing to a police state in the English-speaking world.
My tourist dollars will be spent elsewhere, in a vote against the UK government's continued repressive behavior.
The legal and court system is a show. It serves the purpose of giving the illusion that there are laws, democracy and due process.
Rules are made by the ruling elite. Full stop.
Courts are just part of the puppet system which serves to give people the feeling that they don't need to revolt right now.
Go to politicians' pages and post links in their comments. Go to news media sites and do the same. Then report the sites and get them blocked. Duh.
- In Soviet Korea, only old people loose all their bases to Natalie Portman's petrified hot grits overlords.
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...
and the first site tells me:
pirateproxy.sx UK up Very Fast
tpb.piraten.lu LU up Very Fast
thehiddenbay.net CH up Very Fast
tpb.vnstat.co US up Very Fast
labaia.me LU up Very Fast
tpb.thetorrentbay.so US up Very Fast
theofflinebay.org SE up Very Fast
mrpirateproxy.com LV up Very Fast
onepiratebay.com US up Very Fast
ilikerainbows.co.uk US up Very Fast
baytorrent.nl DE up Very Fast
tpb.nullproxy.com SE up Very Fast
piratebay.blackc.at SE up Very Fast
superbay.info UK up Very Fast
baytorrent.website US up Very Fast
torrentdr.com US up Very Fast
mypirateproxy.org US up Very Fast
pbproxy.com NL down N/A
tpb.internetwarriors.pw ES up Fast
thepiratebay.reviews US up Very Fast
thepiratebeach.eu US up Very Fast
thepirateboat.eu US up Very Fast
thepiratebayv2.org EU up Very Fast
oldpiratebay.org US up Very Fast
proxyduck.com IS up Very Fast
thepiratebay.to RO up Very Fast
thepiratebays.me US up Slow
tpbt.org US up Very Fast
piratebay1.com EU up Very Fast
baypro.xyz US up Very Fast
pirateshore.org UK up Very Fast
tpb.joodle.nl FR down N/A
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
1998 called, they want their drama back.
1) Try to ban illegal downloads. That doesn't work. ...
2) Try to ban sites that link to illegal downloads. That doesn't work.
3) Try to ban sites that link to sites that link to illegal downloads. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this won't work either.
X) Ban everybody who's ever heard the word "download." Shut off the internet. Everybody goes back to direct copying and it still doesn't bloody work.
Three things need to be realized and acted upon if there's any hope of reducing copyright infringement:
- Make legitimate viewing easy. Recent history with iTunes, Netflix, etc.. and hell older history in the form of things like 7-11.. have shown repeatedly that people are happy to pay, and even pay more if they have to, for the product they want to be on demand.
- Unnnlessss you price it too high. People will not pay 20% more for a one-time stream of a movie compared to buying the DVD. Its absolutely stupid to think they would. You can charge more for convenient access, but only for the part of the product that the consumer is receiving -- you must discount the cost of permanence, the cost of physical media/packaging, the cost of distribution, etc. If you don't people will just see it for the scam it is. (And of course there's an absolute maximum price point as well but that's standard economics and applies equally to the physical media.)
- Realize that reducing copyright infringement by 100% is not possible. I'm not saying to stop fighting all together, but when all of your strategies seem to be "all or nothing," you're going to end up on that "nothing" side every single time. Things like invasive DRM that stops infringers for all of about one day but annoy legitimate users until the end of time is NOT really helping the situation. When I have a better experience downloading a pirated copy of something I've already purchased rather than watching the legitimate copy, there's something wrong with the whole situation and it doesn't take too long to start skipping that whole "already purchased" step.
It's simple...
Block institutional payments to ISPs that block sites that link to Pirate bay proxies.
They are blocking freedom of speech.
And charge the ISPs for the inconvenience by noticing them of a fee structure. There should be something in the peering agreements that can be levereged.
Easy. Start posting the links on major portals that even the UK govt wouldn't dare block. Link them behind HTTPS (so partial URI blocking isn't possible) of Twitter, Facebook, etc.
You could probably link to said Twitter feed or whatever from your actual site, unless they start banning links to links to proxies to sites. But once people find out about the major portal accounts, they'll just start going there instead for updated proxies.
One of the other blocked sites, piratebayproxy.co.uk, doesn’t have any direct links to infringing material.
Are you sneakily trying to imply that the Pirate Bay itself does have direct links to infringing material? If the PB has "direct links" you might as well redefine "direct links" to include the proxy sites anyway.
Anyway, the solution is obvious. We just need a site listing all the sites that aren't Pirate Bay proxies, then visit sites which aren't on the list!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
You used to be cool.
DOWNLOADING OFTEN IS TERRIBLE
Really? Pirate Bay? That's like people still using Altavista or Napster.
Kickass kicks ass. Although they're not immune from the copyright cosa nostra thugs either.
I can see the fnords!
.to is fine but .org and .se are blocked as usual, however, ukbay.org still works, as far as proxy linkers go.
sorry, since the piratebay is still somewhere on the internet, you are no longer permitted to access the internet. have a nice day. and yes, you still need to pay your ISP for the possibility of accessing the internet.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Dear Anglo-saxon (anglo-americans): please realize that law and order exists not to make the next generation of criminals, thiefs, fraudsters, robbers, murderers,, etc. ever more cunning, by encouraging them to invent ever more weird ways of circumventing law enforcement and courts and win impunity. Rather, it exists to minimize crime rate by reliably catching AND punishing criminals. Therefore, the desired end result is a docile society, where people are honest and gain prosperity by working hard.
I think, ideally criminals, except the pettiest first time offenders, should be neutered and their off-springs should be de-genitalized too. This way, the genetically encoded criminality inclination could be purged from the human gene pool in a few generation. In such a world, repeat copyright-piracy offenders would not dare to cheekily construct puny excuses, as to why it is OK to steal from jewish authors, musicians and movie studio owners in a repeat Crystal-nacht.
Sad is day when censorship became weapon of choise in democracy. I remember time when it was considered big no no in democracy... Now it has foor throw the door so to speak. Its only question what is censored next. new political partys website? opinins to goes agains official line of government?
Ask yourself a question, with a cognitive and morally correct mindset instead of that straight-edge abiding citizen mask you usually wear for society approval: Is it constitutional to block TPB itself?
NO! IT'S THE FREAKIN INTERNET, AND THE FACT YOUR GOVERNMENT IS SANCTIONING IT DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT.
With that said, why even bother finding logic to this proxy listing blocking? Linking to a site that links illegal content is illegal? Linkception nonsense you say?
The nonsense started way back. Fight the root of the problem, not the ever branching ramifications of an unconstitutional decisions that keep bending the law.
Dear Anglo-saxon (anglo-americans): please realize that law and order exists not to make the next generation of criminals, thiefs, fraudsters, robbers, murderers,, etc. ever more cunning, by encouraging them to invent ever more weird ways of circumventing law enforcement and courts and win impunity.
You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak. ;) Laws exist for precisely this purpose. Thank you and good night.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Just go on a proxy from Switzerland, that still isn't blocked. Even some of the normal proxies are not even blocked.
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