Year of the storm

Post by mike-cardwell » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 1:39 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #21

Erwin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Often the filtering happens through your ISP's domain server rather than at a IP level. The server might have e.g. *.thepiratebay.se forced to return an IP address then showing the blocking page. The workaround is to use a DNS server outside of your ISP -- e.g. Google's 8.8.8.8 nameserver, or alternatively adding the known IPs to /etc/hosts (which might take precedence over a nameserver response depending on your con…

Unfortunately, they are filtering traffic to The Pirate Bay's IP adresses as well. This was part of the verdict, they have to filter the list of IP addresses (hosting TPB) that Brein provides. Edit: I, as most other people here, are perfectly capable of setting up a tunnel. Most people outside these small confines aren't.

Post by Ives » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 1:40 PM UTC

asm89 wrote: post #6

Screenshot for the dutch people that can't visit TPB anymore..: http://i.imgur.com/VVBiJ.png

Post by rickmb » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #15

rickmb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the copy-paste. The fact that I now have to rely on others to republish this information because as of today it is being censored for me makes me very, very sad. I'm 45 years old, I was born and raised in the "free world", and this is the first time in my life I am confronted with the painful reality of censorship. Regardless of what one might think of the Pirate Bay, this feels so very, very wrong.

Sorry, but that was an old post, it just felt appropriate :|

Post by microtonal » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 1:42 PM UTC

drostie wrote: post #17

microtonal wrote: post #9

It is sad, but I cannot read this blog post. The Dutch equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA, named Brein, sued two of the major Dutch ISPs for not blocking access to The Pirate Bay. Brein won the court case, and the judge required these ISPs to block The Pirate Bay starting yesterday. Now I am met with this when visiting thepiratebay.se: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/blokkade.png/ Internet censorship is now real in…

I'm at work at the TU Delft right now, which lets me access thepiratebay.se, but I might test this with my Internet connection at home to see whether it is blocked. If it's censored at the DNS level, you can get around it by using an open DNS server rather than your internet server. If it is censored at an HTTP level, then you can get around it by using HTTPS. (Although I just tried this and thepiratebay.se uses thep…

Post by VMG » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 1:53 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #20

Erwin wrote: post #19

So the Pirate Bay is now a bastion of freedom that lets users in Syria and North Korea download the latest episode of Glee? (The current most popular torrent there). I'm a little confused about what their greater noble political purpose is. To me it sounds like a place where you can get your TV shows in a more convenient way than waiting until they appear on channels you have, or download that movie you can't be both…

I don't get what your point is - do they need a greater and nobler political purpose other than giving access to whatever people want? Also, Microsoft Office is extremely expensive for people in third-world countries. Pointing people to free alternatives that aren't fully compatible and that have a different interface is not the answer. Microsoft's Office is required for most corporate documents and it is assumed whe…