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British ISPs continue blocks against Pirate Bay proxies

As file sharing has evolved over the past decade, the efforts of lobby groups and studios to stop it have done so too. Back in the day the technique of choice was to sue individual downloaders and uploaders, but that's time consuming and ultimately has little effect on the number of films being downloaded or the amount of people doing so. Over the past few years, ISPs have become the target of the lobby groups' attention, with court orders forcing ineffective block orders and that strategy still continues today, as just this week another round of blocks of popular proxy services was initiated.

The ones in the firing line this time include the ever popular PirateProxy, which has been domain jumping just like the original Pirate Bay used to. Originally its .net suffix was blocked in April in the UK and elsewhere a few months later. From there it switched to .in but now that domain has been blocked too. Of course it doesn't seem to have had much of an effect, as a new .bz domain has already been created.

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If these spelled “proxy,” this would actually be a good joke

As TorrentFreak reports, other domains being targeted by the latest round of blocks includes those using the Come.in portal. Attempting to visit it or any of the various other torrent site proxies that have been hit in this latest blockade is likely to result in a message informing you that you're no longer allowed to view its content. However if the site owners have it set up, you may just find yourself being redirected to a new proxy.

KitGuru Says: As well intentioned as these blocks may appear to be, they're entirely redundant. There are thousands of alternatives out there and a VPN service is easy enough to come by. Blocks don't stop pirates, they just make it look like something is being done. 

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3 comments

  1. http://piratebrowser.com/

    You’re welcome.

  2. They block these every month, I just find another. PirateProxy.in was my latest until recent.

  3. my is working all the time