Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
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Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
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Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#2I have been reading up on sub marine cables lately as the cable cuts in Egypt has reduced our international data transfer substantially here in Bangladesh.
This add from one of the companies in that market got me thinking that TPB should start a fundraiser to establish fiber connection to such an independent island and thereby gain greater independence.
http://www.buysellbandwidth.com/groupbuying/deals_detail.php...
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#3It seems the switch to a new domain name has broken the ISP censorship in the UK. thepiratebay.se redirects to a site blocked page. thepiratebay.is works.
I'm sure it won't be long until they block it again but this domain change as well as the numerous proxy sites setup to bypass the block go to show that it's a waste of time to even try blocking stuff like this.
Does anyone know if the ISP's will be automatically required to block the new domain or if it would have to go through court again?
Edit: I'm using TalkTalk
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#4It seems the switch to a new domain name has broken the ISP censorship in the UK. thepiratebay.se redirects to a site blocked page. thepiratebay.is works. I'm sure it won't be long until they block it again but this domain change as well as the numerous proxy sites setup to bypass the block go to show that it's a waste of time to even try blocking stuff like this. Does anyone know if the ISP's will be automatically r…
I'm on Virgin Media (UK) and thepiratebay.is doesn't work here. This implies that they don't have to go through the court.
I suspect if the new domain is being run by the same organisation they are required to block instantly. I wonder what the legal issues are if The Pirate Bay splits into multipel organisations hosted on different domains.
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#5I have been reading up on sub marine cables lately as the cable cuts in Egypt has reduced our international data transfer substantially here in Bangladesh. This add from one of the companies in that market got me thinking that TPB should start a fundraiser to establish fiber connection to such an independent island and thereby gain greater independence. http://www.buysellbandwidth.com/groupbuying/deals_detail.php...
Ooops, we accidentally dropped our anchor right on your cable! Sorry about that....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#6Can they actually hold off collective might of media houses and billionaires who actually call the shots and make politicians dance to their tunes, mostly because of they have taken the dirty money? What if the bullies resort to proxy arm twisting?
One must remember Iceland was invaded[1] by the British during WW2!
PS. An invasion is an invasion even if it was said that the invasion was to pre-empt another invasion.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland
[update: invasion in a sense as to coerce a country to achieve desired result by hook or by crook]
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#7What I wonder about, is they should be the "creators" and steering committee for the worlds own PnP DNS servers... I would gladly host a small portion of DNS spaces on my machines running at home...
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#8It seems the switch to a new domain name has broken the ISP censorship in the UK. thepiratebay.se redirects to a site blocked page. thepiratebay.is works. I'm sure it won't be long until they block it again but this domain change as well as the numerous proxy sites setup to bypass the block go to show that it's a waste of time to even try blocking stuff like this. Does anyone know if the ISP's will be automatically r…
I'm using BT Broadband in the UK and thepiratebay.is is not responding for me. Although I don't get the "Error – Site blocked" message that I get when trying to access priatebay.org, it just never loads.
Traceroute stops working somewhere in the BT network (just getting * * * after ukcore.bt.net) so I'm guessing it's being blocked.
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#9It seems the switch to a new domain name has broken the ISP censorship in the UK. thepiratebay.se redirects to a site blocked page. thepiratebay.is works. I'm sure it won't be long until they block it again but this domain change as well as the numerous proxy sites setup to bypass the block go to show that it's a waste of time to even try blocking stuff like this. Does anyone know if the ISP's will be automatically r…
If I go to kat.ph I get an almost blank page with "Error – Site blocked".
Going to either (http://thepiratebay.is/) or (http://thepiratebay.se/) gives me an "Oops! Google Chrome could not find thepiratebay.se" (or .is) error.
I'm using BTWifi-with-Fon in England.
> this domain change as well as the numerous proxy sites setup to bypass the block go to show that it's a waste of time to even try blocking stuff like this.
Yes, it's trivially easy to still get to these sites. And all the other sites with this content.
Re: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
#10Can they actually hold off collective might of media houses and billionaires who actually call the shots and make politicians dance to their tunes, mostly because of they have taken the dirty money? What if the bullies resort to proxy arm twisting? One must remember Iceland was invaded[1] by the British during WW2! PS. An invasion is an invasion even if it was said that the invasion was to pre-empt another invasion.…
I doubt anyone's going to invade Iceland because of TPB.