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UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

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Re: UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

#11

Wow, I didn't realise this had started. If I go to http://thepiratebay.se I get this message: Copyright Notice ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN DISABLED BECAUSE THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA HAS DETERMINED THAT IT INFRINGES OR FACILITATES THE INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT. Please access the content you are seeking via licensed sites – www.digitalcontentguide.com.au provides information about many sources of licensed cont…

Same thing in the UK, with the main ISPs at least.

Re: UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

#13

Same deal in the UK. I wonder how long until the US goes down the same route. I'm quite surprised that they've gone down the DNS based filtering route. I'd expect that to change in a few years time. I recommend investing in a VPN service. They're relatively cheap. And if you pick the right one, the bandwidth is generally pretty good.

Ant specific recommendations? I use IP Vanish and I have no performance problems.

Re: UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

#14

Wow, I didn't realise this had started. If I go to http://thepiratebay.se I get this message: Copyright Notice ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN DISABLED BECAUSE THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA HAS DETERMINED THAT IT INFRINGES OR FACILITATES THE INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT. Please access the content you are seeking via licensed sites – www.digitalcontentguide.com.au provides information about many sources of licensed cont…

Can you capture the HTML and any images and rehost it somewhere?

Re: UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

#16

Same deal in the UK. I wonder how long until the US goes down the same route. I'm quite surprised that they've gone down the DNS based filtering route. I'd expect that to change in a few years time. I recommend investing in a VPN service. They're relatively cheap. And if you pick the right one, the bandwidth is generally pretty good.

At some point all the interesting/useful countries to exit the VPN will be censored. Then it's game over.

Re: UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

#17
I think that government censorshop is bad for free speech.

If you have two dns services one normal and one with blacklisted ip, then you can loop over the domain names in both dns services compare the result and find the blacklist. Easier for reverse dns loopups, but not impossible if you have a list of forward dns names.

Re: UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

HTTPS still has to resolve the domain name that is part of the url.

Yeah, but an ISP should at worst be able to block connections to specific hosts or IP addresses. If they could generate certificates for arbitrary domains (like thepiratebay.se) allowing them to serve a "blocked for copyright infringement" page over HTTPS, then something would be seriously broken.

If it is just at dns, it can just point you to a different ip

Re: UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access

#19
As an Aussie I find this pretty funny. Since they passed the law to make ISPs store your data ( which was a warning shot to piraters from my POV ) not many people's behaviours changed. Ie people still pirated. The difference between simply logging traffic and blocking certain sites means instead of being able to watch what I do, I'll be sign up to a VPN and they won't see any of my traffic. If anything blocking these sites is great as it will force lazy people to use VPNs.

Good work to these guys making it easier to get started.

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