British ISPs will block The Pirate Bay within weeks

High court orders service providers including Sky and Virgin Media to block The Pirate Bay in the UK




The high court has ruled that British ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay in the UK. Photograph: Claudio Bresciani/Scanpix/PA Photos

Britain's internet providers have been ordered by the high court to block access to the filesharing website The Pirate Bay.
The high court on Monday told five leading internet service providers (ISPs) , including Sky and Virgin Media, to block the site in the UK after ruling that it breaches copyright laws.
The block, starting within weeks, will mean millions of Britons will no longer be able to access one of the biggest and longest-running global filesharing sites.
The high court order provoked criticism from internet advocacy groups, who likened action against illicit filesharing websites to other forms of online censorship.
Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said: "Blocking The Pirate Bay is pointless and dangerous.It will fuel calls for further, wider and even more drastic calls for Internet censorship of many kinds, from pornography to extremism.
"Internet censorship is growing in scope and becoming easier. Yet it never has the effect desired. It simply turns criminals into heroes."
The order to block The Pirate Bay – requested by the major music groups, represented by the British Phonographic Industry – comes as authorities and courts have tightened the net on illicit downloading sites, which film studios and music majors claim are responsible for billions of pounds in lost revenue.
Robert Ashcroft, chief executive of the musicians' lobbying group PRS for Music, said: "We're delighted the high court has sent another clear signal to damaging sites like the Pirate Bay that they will be blocked."
In the order, the judge Mr Justice Arnold told Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, O2 and Everything Everywhere to begin blocking access to The Pirate Bay.
Britain's biggest ISP, BT, also received the court order but has requested further time to consider how to block the site.
According to record labels, The Pirate Bay generated up to $3m (£1.8m) from advertising last October by making 4m copies of music and films available to its 30 million users worldwide. The site has 3.7 million users in the UK, according to comScore.
Mr Justice Arnold said in a written judgment in February: "In my judgment, the operators of [The Pirate Bay] do authorise its users' infringing acts of copying and communication to the public. They go far beyond merely enabling or assisting.
"I conclude that both users and the operators of [The Pirate Bay] infringe the copyrights of the claimants … in the UK."
The high court action follows a blocking order made against the Newzbin2 website in October, after a judge found it infringed copyright on a grand scale.





if ask me people will just use google to search what they want eg saints row 3 xbox 360 iso torrent

 

There are so many proxy sites people could use to bypass this and there are other torrent sites people could use lol.

 

if they really wanted to hit the piracy scene shouldnt they just go after the file hosters who the torrent belongs to sharing it not the leechers or seeders dont get me wrong the majority of bittorrent is used for piracy but there are legitamate files such as game clients by bittorent

 

Seems like I need to find a new torrent site

 

[video=youtube;l4nj0a9rgzA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4nj0a9rgzA[/video]

 

So. They are blocking one out of hundreds of torrent sites. How cute.

 

They will do most of them over time, Megaupload and Piratebay are the main ones,

 

lol this backfired they gained 12 million visitors

Virgin media is now blocking the site.

source http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-enjoys-12-million-traffic-boost-shares-unblocking-tips-120502/

 

Meh I haven't used the PirateBay in years! Good to know that if any of the sites I do use get blocked, I can get around it

 

InsaneNutter's always there with his hacking tips

 

The entire world will one day have North Korea's 'high tech' PC info. Which is.. none. lol

It really is pointless to block one torrent site out of millions.

 

They try taget the most famous ones, Piratebay and megaupload was just the start

 

How did you do that Nutter?

 

oook..... i need the digiex proxy lol..... my method is slow
VNC into a server, get the torrent i want, Wait for server to download it... send to me via secret web address

but your method looks easy

 

Thanks!

And im not snazzy enough to afford OVH's windows prices, so i stick with centOS

Question though, is there a way i can not use my server's hostname? last thing i want is the hostname "browsing" these blocked sites -_-

(And i would not be able to use this method at collage as exe files are blocked from usb's / download so i can not obtain any software to do it)

 

I did that same method with a home server to access anything at school, no one ever noticed.