Yesterday BT became the last of the UK’s major internet service providers to fall in line with a court order stating that file-sharing site The Pirate Bay should be blocked. BT users who try and access the site via the conventional means – will now see the message “Error – site blocked.”
In a somewhat futile attempt to stay one step ahead of the game, BT went further than the other ISP’s and stopped its users from accessing the new IP-addresses, 194.71.107.80 and 194.71.107.81 that were introduced by the Pirate Bay to help UK users get around the blockade.
In the cyber-chess game between TPB and the censors, TPB made another decisive move, for within minutes of the sites being blocked, they had put up a new set of IP-addresses (.82 and .83) that BT users can still access. At least for now – the citizens of the UK can still access TPB if they know where to look. Continue Reading
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