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Norwegian Pirate Party opens Pirate Bay DNS workaround

It was a sad day when the British Pirate party, PPUK, announced that it would have to close its Pirate Bay proxy site over fear of legal action from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), as the party truly believed that by averting censorship it was doing the right thing. That seems to be the attitude that the Norwegian branch of the same political entity, as it's now opened up a DNS server to provide access to TPB after it was blocked in the country.

“We want a free and open Internet for everyone. The copyright industry’s fight for control over culture has put us in a situation where this is no longer the case in Norway,” Pirate Party co-chairman Øystein Middelthun told TorrentFreak.

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Although not quite as simple as a proxy workaround, PP Norway claims that working around censorship like a DNS block is not difficult, simply setting up its own alternative name server. Like PPUK, it believes this is the right thing to do.

“We decided to practice what we preach and offer such a service to all those affected by the problem,” it said.

What's interesting about this instance however, is that the changes to DNS settings are performed by the end users wishing to visit TPB on their own computer, the Pirate Party just provides the settings and the server. Google and OpenDNS also offer alternatives not affiliated with TPB.

However unlike the above, the Pirate Party's server has minimal logging to make any potential cooperation with law enforcement minimal. Regardless though, it seems difficult to imagine a scenario where the police could bring anything to bear against the Pirate Party, as it isn't doing anything illegal.

Of course the authorities and lobby groups could push for regulated DNS servers, but then they would have a much bigger fight than piracy on their hands.

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KitGuru Says: I know I'm preaching to the choir at this point so I won't say it. We all know these blocks do nothing. 

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