U.K. High Court Orders ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay

[Eugene]

Source: PC Magazine

By Chloe Albanesius
April 30, 2012 12:51pm EST

The U.K.'s High Court has ruled that five ISPs in the region must block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay for copyright violations.

Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2, and Virgin Media must block the website within the next few weeks, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Britain's music industry trade group.

"We can confirm we have received a court order which we plan to comply with," Orange, which runs Everything Everywhere with T-Mobile, said in a statement.

"We have received a court order requiring us to block access to The Pirate Bay," TalkTalk also confirmed. "We will comply with the decision made by the court and are in the process of doing this. TalkTalk have always maintained that we are not in principle against blocking provided there is a court order."

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[Garion_55]

1. wont proxies work

to get around the ban? once the user has the torrent file pirate bay is out of the picture anyway. people can just get torrents from other sites.

so stupid

[JCMach1]

3. proxy and vpns would work as well as Tor

I am an expert in getting around the great wall of uae

[anti-alec]

2. TPB isn't the only one in town...

There's a lot more torrent sites....

A LOT more....

(I belong in two of them - and I keep a 1.5 ratio)

[Ron Obvious]

4. Silly...

Firstly, TPB doesn't host any pirated content. You might as well say google facilitates piracy since you can search for "filetype: torrent" on google.

Secondly, it's easy enough to circumvent. If it's a minimal DNS block there are already browser add-on to work-around, and for that matter simply adding the right ip adresses to the hosts file would be sufficient.

[Poll_Blind]

5. (rapping) I'm rollin' like a G...with NNTP...on port 563!

Lock 'n' key...now where's my Glee?!



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