Piratebay ISP block (See Mod Note in post 1)

mordeith · 12-06-2013 3:06pm #1

Twas bound to happen.
http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2013/0612/456177-pirate-bay-court/

I imagine SKY broadband will be delighted (unless they already block it)

Mod Note: Please do not post any workarounds on how to access the pirate bay or mention other torrent sites.

drunkmonkey · 12-06-2013 3:09pm

Will you still be able to get around it using Tor or something similar?

1984 is arriving sooner than I thought:(

Prodigious · 12-06-2013 3:10pm

There are literally hundreds of workarounds. VPN's, proxies, mirrors, etc.

That is, if UPC don't fight it, which they have in the past.

Khannie · 12-06-2013 3:14pm

It's such madness. As if an alternative site wont pop up tomorrow / isn't already there.

Stop your f*ckin' whining about CD sales going down the toilet and hurry up with the high quality legal streaming services FFS. People will pay for that!!!! (or sit through ads).

mordeith wrote: »

I imagine SKY broadband will be delighted (unless they already block it)

Why SKY specifically?

Prodigious · 12-06-2013 3:19pm

Khannie wrote: »

It's such madness. As if an alternative site wont pop up tomorrow / isn't already there.

Stop your f*ckin' whining about CD sales going down the toilet and hurry up with the high quality legal streaming services FFS. People will pay for that!!!! (or sit through ads).

Why SKY specifically?

Weren't listed on the ISP's that were ordered by the d!ckhead judge. So one could assume that they are not obliged to block it.

mordeith · 12-06-2013 3:22pm

Prodigious wrote: »

Weren't listed on the ISP's that were ordered by the d!ckhead judge. So one could assume that they are not obliged to block it.

Exactly. A lot of people probably wouldn't be aware of work arounds and so will jump ship to SKY from their current ISP if they can access it with SKY.

DoesNotCompute · 12-06-2013 3:22pm

I think Sky block Pirate Bay already?

mordeith · 12-06-2013 3:22pm

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

I think Sky block Pirate Bay already?

They may do. I have no idea

Peregrine · 12-06-2013 3:26pm

Sky broadband UK blocks them afaik, I'm not sure if Sky Ireland blocks it. Can anyone who has/had Sky confirm?

EMI, Sony, Warner Music and Universal claim Pirate Bay activities causing them €20m losses annually

And how much losses are caused by your incompetence to move on, oh mighty ones?

3wayswitch · 12-06-2013 3:43pm

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Sky broadband UK blocks them afaik, I'm not sure if Sky Ireland blocks it. Can anyone who has/had Sky confirm?

It's not blocked for me on Sky.

yoyo · 12-06-2013 3:53pm

3wayswitch wrote: »

It's not blocked for me on Sky.

ISPs have 30 days to implement the blocking, in fairness I think Sky will follow suit. It would be in their "interest" to try limit certain types of downloading. It's a worrying move to see courts ruled by judges who havn't a clue about technology can have sites blocked just like that. Of course further proof that "money talks".
This will only open the floodgates for other sites to receive the same treatment tpb got, and a judge can simply sign away and it gets blocked. Not good..

Nick

Prodigious · 12-06-2013 3:55pm

yoyo wrote: »

ISPs have 30 days to implement the blocking, in fairness I think Sky will follow suit. It would be in their "interest" to try limit certain types of downloading. It's a worrying move to see courts ruled by judges who havn't a clue about technology can have sites blocked just like that. Of course further proof that "money talks".
This will only open the floodgates for other sites to receive the same treatment tpb got, and a judge can simply sign away and it gets blocked. Not good..

Nick

I don't see any reason for Sky to follow suit. I expect they will remain neutral and not change a thing.

Prodigious · 12-06-2013 3:56pm

Anyone who wants to read about the case: Link

practice · 12-06-2013 4:05pm

The judge was only applying the law.

It was this that made it happen,

JUNIOR MINISTER SEÁN Sherlock has this afternoon confirmed that the controversial statutory instrument that reinforces online copyright laws in Ireland has been signed into law.

The controversial ‘Irish SOPA’ legislation was the subject of much debate last month amid concerns it would limit internet freedom. Today Sherlock confirmed that the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012 has been signed into law.

Should be minister for censorship instead of Minister for Research and Innovation

Prodigious · 12-06-2013 4:07pm

Innovation my hole. Either he's incredibly stupid or money changed hands.

MOH · 12-06-2013 4:34pm

Prodigious wrote: »

Innovation my hole. Either he's incredibly stupid or money changed hands.

What a ridiculous statement.
(Why limit it to either/or?)

Khannie · 12-06-2013 4:41pm

EU to block the blockers?

The EU will ban Internet service providers from manipulating and blocking access to certain websites, according to a European Commission official.

Source.

Ah well. Sure at least the lawyers made some money.

fritzelly · 13-06-2013 1:22am

Sky rent their broadband from BT who are not on the list but don't they use Vodafone...would've thought they're covering all bases since it's pretty much Eircom that have the landlines, UPC for the cable and all the mobiles..so you're screwed all ways.

croo · 13-06-2013 10:04am

Prodigious wrote: »

There are literally hundreds of workarounds. VPN's, proxies, mirrors, etc.

Not to mention the most obvious workaround... Google!

yoyo · 13-06-2013 10:15am

fritzelly wrote: »

Sky rent their broadband from BT who are not on the list but don't they use Vodafone...would've thought they're covering all bases since it's pretty much Eircom that have the landlines, UPC for the cable and all the mobiles..so you're screwed all ways.

Sky are not on the list only because they weren't offering bb when the initial court case took place. They are under no obligation to enforce this block, the fact that BT resell the BB to them is irrelevant, likewise they are using the Eircom network along with Vodafone and the others.

Nick

Karlitto · 13-06-2013 10:19am

Khannie wrote: »

It's such madness. As if an alternative site wont pop up tomorrow / isn't already there.

Stop your f*ckin' whining about CD sales going down the toilet and hurry up with the high quality legal streaming services FFS. People will pay for that!!!! (or sit through ads).

Why SKY specifically?

Spotify?

BloodBath · 13-06-2013 10:29am

Or grooveshark. Been using grooveshark for 5+ years. Free high quality legal streaming has been around for quite some time now.

Khannie · 13-06-2013 12:23pm

Karlitto wrote: »

Spotify?

Oh sorry, I meant video at the end of my rant there. It should probably have said DVD. I use spotify and think it's great. It's a real game changer. I hope they make a mint out of it.

Karlitto · 13-06-2013 12:25pm

Khannie wrote: »

Oh sorry, I meant video at the end of my rant there. It should probably have said DVD. I use spotify and think it's great. It's a real game changer. I hope they make a mint out of it.

Yep, it is fantastic, basically it is Netflix for music

runswithascript · 14-06-2013 5:05pm

I am forced to use an Eircom connection some of the time and I often forget they have it banned because I use The Pirate Bay Forwarder :: Add-ons for Firefox - Mozilla Add-ons. When you put thepiratebay.se etc into Firefox it automatically redirects you to a working mirror instantly so the whole thing in seamless. I am sure some of these mirrors have ads and popups but I do not see them as I use Ad Block Plus with Easylist, Fanboylist, and 'allow some unintrusive advertising' disabled, along with Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon, and Flashblock.

yoyo · 14-06-2013 6:07pm

Hi folks, can we not be providing any workarounds on how to access the pirate bay at present. This could be considered dodgy so as a result best avoided . Thanks!

runswithascript · 14-06-2013 6:57pm

yoyo wrote: »

Hi folks, can we not be providing any workarounds on how to access the pirate bay at present. This could be considered dodgy so as a result best avoided . Thanks!

No problem, I did not know there was a problem doing that as people have already mentioned using mirrors and proxies etc.

Freddy Smelly · 16-06-2013 4:25pm

fritzelly wrote: »

Sky rent their broadband from BT who are not on the list but don't they use Vodafone...would've thought they're covering all bases since it's pretty much Eircom that have the landlines, UPC for the cable and all the mobiles..so you're screwed all ways.

the following isp's rent lines from eircom wholesale (so if your line is crap on eircom retail it will still be crap on any of the following isp)

Eircom Retail
BT Ireland (yes BT ireland rent lines from eircom wholesale)
Pure telecom
Imagine
Digiweb
Magnet
Utv

the following isp use BT wholesale

Sky Broadband
Vodafone
Three
O2

TireeTerror · 16-06-2013 8:34pm

My ISP doesnt block it.

Its pointless blocking it anyway, so many obvious workarounds for anyone who spends 30 seconds on Google.

nmop_apisdn · 16-06-2013 10:43pm

Block Google I say.

MOH · 18-06-2013 11:55am

nmop_apisdn wrote: »

Block Google I say.

Don't joke. I say that's in the pipeline, they'll be demanding Google remove information on how to access copyright material.

MiskyBoyy · 18-06-2013 11:58am

Not posting any direct link but it's very simple, just googling "TPB proxy" seems to be the best way.

yoyo · 18-06-2013 12:07pm

MOH wrote: »

Don't joke. I say that's in the pipeline, they'll be demanding Google remove information on how to access copyright material.

How about a government "sponsored" search engine, in conjunction with our friends at IRMA, EMI, $ony :P

Nick

old_aussie · 18-06-2013 12:19pm

No problems with piratebay in Oz

ISP's are not responsible for piracy

FourFourRED · 08-07-2013 12:30pm

It looks like Vodafone have already started putting the block in place.

Agent Smith · 08-07-2013 12:34pm

google have their own torrent search engine. looks like we better block google

ZENER · 08-07-2013 7:00pm

3 are blocking PB now :mad: . . . ffs nanny state run by chicken livered brown envelope loving twats.

Ken

MiskyBoyy · 10-07-2013 1:41am

Tried to access TPB on my UPC connection tonight...

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IT-Guy · 10-07-2013 2:14am

On UTV Internet and no blocking TPB yet, long may it continue

Peregrine · 10-07-2013 2:16am

IT-Guy wrote: »

On UTV Internet and no blocking TPB yet, long may it continue

ISPs were given a month were they not?

2 more days left

practice · 10-07-2013 7:16am

So sad unable to access piratebay on UPC today.

Rumour has it that a Bill is being prepared in the Dail to outlaw the sale of blank CDs and DVDs.

yoyo · 10-07-2013 9:37am

practice wrote: »

Rumour has it that a Bill is being prepared in the Dail to outlaw the sale of blank CDs and DVDs.

Sounds like bull to me, sure many use CDs/DVDs for backing up photos/storage etc. A CD/DVD tax may be suggested, but even then I cannot see how it would be justified. I'm sure most piracy doesn't use CDs/DVDs anymore anyways

Nick

Khannie · 10-07-2013 12:09pm

practice wrote: »

Rumour has it that a Bill is being prepared in the Dail to outlaw the sale of blank CDs and DVDs.

That would be so funny if it were true.

"Ireland - responding to piracy from the 1990's in 2013"

BloodBath · 10-07-2013 12:11pm

This ****ing state is a joke. We should find out where these politicians live and reclaim the wealth they have stolen from us. It makes me sick knowing the likes of bertie Ahern and his Cronies are still collecting fat pensions when they sold out our resources for 3 magic beans. The ****ers should be tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets of Dublin as a warning to the rest of them.

They can only keep taking things away from people for so long. But we're Irish and we'll put up with it instead of showing them we won't. We don't even protest these things.

Peregrine · 10-07-2013 12:14pm

practice wrote: »

Rumour has it that a Bill is being prepared in the Dail to outlaw the sale of blank CDs and DVDs.

Surely they will ban VHS tapes too? :pac:

fritzelly · 10-07-2013 1:09pm

Time to update my bookmarks, now which proxy to use...

ASJ112 · 10-07-2013 1:54pm

Does anybody know what ISPs aren't doing this censorship ? I'd rather give my broadband fee to somebody else if possible

Pudsy33 · 10-07-2013 1:59pm

Still up on Vodafone.

fritzelly · 10-07-2013 2:02pm

ASJ112 wrote: »

Does anybody know what ISPs aren't doing this censorship ? I'd rather give my broadband fee to somebody else if possible

Sky were not included

af_thefragile · 10-07-2013 2:02pm

Bah! Up until a few days ago I was able to visit piratebay and now its blocked!!!

It's good I downloaded all the stuff I wanted to before piratebay got blocked... Now will need to look elsewhere in the future...

I'm on magnet btw... So it really seems to be happening!!

wilford · 10-07-2013 2:08pm

Well damn you Mr High Court Judge it must have taken me an extra 20 seconds to find what I was looking for,do they really think blocking a website will stop what's going on?

Piratebay ISP block (See Mod Note in post 1)

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