The Pirate Bay - Blocked in the UK

[Beio]

Tthe industry goes all freaksho over the internet, but it's like bootlegged tapes have been around since..... basically forever.

Wasnt Katy Perry also banned in eAngland?

[Goemar]

Meh I liked Pirate Bay. Though to say it's blocked it seems to be well... still there?

But yeah slapping WHAT YOU WANT + TORRENT into Google serves the same purpose so I really don't know what this has achieved... I guess it gives the higher-ups something to pat themselves on the back about?

The only thing I ever got were TV Shows (Adventure Time, Storage Wars etc.) which are things I could just legally record off the damn TV so it's just annoying that downloads of these aren't available anyway. I'm too lazy to go to my parent's house, go into "recorded-series" play an episode, record it, edit it and then transfer it to my PS3 so now I'm simply not going to watch those shows* (no TV here, not worth the license money ith BBC i-player and all that) so it's not like they've suddenly made me have to give them money.

Still think people who pirate pretty much all there 360 games are dicks though. With how cheap rental games are there's really no good reason.

*if I didn't know how to use Google

[LauriJ]

Well, does it matter that it's blocked? I am sure there are other better alternatives.

[Previous]

Well, does it matter that it's blocked? I am sure there are other better alternatives.

It's not so much the fact that they've blocked The Pirate Bay, it's HOW they've blocked it. The assumption was that the block would be DNS based much like the block BT had set up for newzbin, put simply they block the domain name but not the IP Address; This does not appear to be the case though. The simple solution would have been to simply change DNS provider from Virgin Media's own to OpenDNS or Google's DNS and that would effectively bypass the block altogether. That did not happen. The consequence of this is that it means Virgin Media are doing more than DNS filtering and indeed must be doing highly invasive deep packet inspecting in order to filter TPB. Sadly from this deep packet inspection it's only a short ways away from some of the strictest bandwidth shaping that could potentially block all peer2peer traffic, or any traffic VM deems to be too substantial that it's affecting their network.

That's it basically, really.