The Pirate Bay blocked in the UK

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Internet service providers must block UK customers from accessing popular torrent portal The Pirate Bay, according to a new ruling handed down by the High Court today.
As reported by the BBC, Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all deny access to the controversial Swedish site.
The move follows a request from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) last November, asking ISPs to voluntarily block the site. They refused to do so without a court order, which the BPI has now obtained.
"The High Court has confirmed that The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale," commented BPI CEO Geoff Taylor.
"Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works without paying a penny to the people who created them.
"This is wrong - musicians, sound engineers and video editors deserve to be paid for their work just like everyone else."
Virgin confirmed that it will adhere to the court's request, albeit reluctantly.
"As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media complies with court orders addressed to the company but strongly believes that changing consumer behaviour to tackle copyright infringement also needs compelling legal alternatives, such as our agreement with Spotify, to give consumers access to great content at the right price," explained a spokesperson.
It's not known exactly when access to the site will be turned off.
Outspoken Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson responded to the news by posting a link on his Twitter feed to a workaround that lets viewers in countries with a block in place to view the torrent hub, followed by a request - "please don't pirate Minecraft".
However, he then added, "Although if pirating Minecraft helps ensure the bastards don't get to censor the net, pirate it all you want."



:arrow: Source (Sorry, Eurogamer again, it's just they're usually unbiased and have short stories that people can be bothered to read).

I love how much effort the ISPs are putting into this (hint: none at all) - I'm sure they know how much of their traffic goes to this site. They'll probably block it but not bother clamping down on other ways of accessing it.
 

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They'll just change the .se into something else and all of their problems will be fixed.

I think they are smart enough to have blocked server's IP and not domain name. Good luck UK ppl to access the site.
In France we can access it but French gov is watching some torrents on public trackers to stop us from using p2p :(
 

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It is blocked here as well, but I may not post an alternate link :lol: search on google piratebay alternate. ^^
Strange, I can access it, no takedown on me.

I have Ziggo, Ziggo and XS4All have blocked Piratebay cos Tim Kuik(aka Stichting Brein) forced them.

http://www.nu.nl/internet/2712455/ziggo-en-xs4all-moeten-toegang-the-pirate-bay-blokkeren.html
 

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