Are Virgin Blocking TPB and Kickass?

Thargor

Whenever I try to get to them no matter what proxy I use all I get is this:

GerardKeating

Thargor wrote: »

Whenever I try to get to them no matter what proxy I use all I get is this:

Am not on Virgin and can access proxybay.tv and tpb

The FBI took KAT off line the other week.

Thargor

Yeah but it came back straight away, Im genuinely baffled here, Ive always been able to find a working proxy and places like https://unblocked.cat/ always list the currently working ones.

Nollog

That's just google telling you that website's SSL cert is bad. Not a block by anyone.

I think virgin and eir block tpb but they block domain names, so what people do is create thousands of alternative domain names that go to the same place, you'd just have to find one of those.

TPB is bad though(and kat). Breeding grounds for FBI and MPAA people to send you letters and fines.

Thargor

How do I get rid of it though? It wont let me progress...

/\/ollog wrote: »

TPB is bad though(and kat). Breeding grounds for FBI and MPAA people to send you letters and fines.

Id be more worried about being struck by lightning or attacked by a great white shark tbh.

Thargor

This happens in all my browsers, the only browser that gives me an option to proceed is Opera and when I tell it to load the page anyway I get redirected to https://www.virginmedia.ie, does anyone have any clue what is going on here?

Thargor

Okay I just disconnected the Ethernet cable from the router to my pc and connected to the router over wi-fi instead, fixed the issue straight away, leaving wi-fi swiched on when I go back on the ethernet cable also fixes it, turning off wi-fi restores the problem instantly, router restart made no difference, at least I can get access to them now though...

moc moc a moc

/\/ollog wrote: »

Breeding grounds for FBI and MPAA people to send you letters and fines.

I doubt these American agencies are going to bother sending any letters or fines to Irish visitors.

DopeTech

Its virgin blocking it. I get the same when connected to my router, once I connect to mobile data on my phone it loads without issue.

ED E

The "Uses HSTS" is important.

If you connect to KAT/TBP with a different connection(or VPN etc) then connect with a regular Virgin connection you should get a Virgin webpage but as theyve started using HSTS this change means your browser thinks somebody is pretending to be the site and refuses to go anywhere. Its the same protection that would stop a cafe wifi putting up a fake facebook at facebook.com and stealing everyones logins.

Thargor

Anything I can do about it? The ethernet cable is 3X the speed of the wifi in this house.

Hellrazer

Same issue here.
All PB proxies that I used to use(for legitimate purposes) now give a certificate error and then redirect to Virginmedia.ie.

I wonder what else UPC have decided to block and/or are watching what their customers are up to??

ItHurtsWhenIP

I wonder is it to do with this?

Thargor

MMFITWGDV wrote: »

I wonder is it to do with this?

That doesnt explain why it works over wi-fi but not ethernet though, its the same router Im connected to...

ED E

Thargor wrote: »

That doesnt explain why it works over wi-fi but not ethernet though, its the same router Im connected to...

DNS is per interface, you fixed it on one interface at some point in the past but not the other.

Mech1

put in 8.8.8.8 as your prefered DNS

then it will work.

dunworth1

Hellrazer wrote:

I wonder what else UPC have decided to block and/or are watching what their customers are up to??

It's blocked by a court order. Which virgin actually fought to not have to block.

Unlike eir who bent over

2RockMountain

TOR browser still works for Virgin users, once you get through the very annoying reCaptchas

plodder

Blocking IP addresses is one thing, but putting up fake SSL certificates pretending to be the site you want to connect to is a different story altogether. Though if opera is allowing you to ignore the fake cert warning and the HSTS warning, and you still get redirected to virginmedia.ie then that means they aren't doing anything more sinister. But, in theory it could mean a strategy of allowing people to access the site, through their(or somebody's) man in the middle, and where they get to see exactly what content you are downloading.

ED E

plodder wrote: »

Blocking IP addresses is one thing, but putting up fake SSL certificates pretending to be the site you want to connect to is a different story altogether. Though if opera is allowing you to ignore the fake cert warning and the HSTS warning, and you still get redirected to virginmedia.ie then that means they aren't doing anything more sinister. But, in theory it could mean a strategy of allowing people to access the site, through their(or somebody's) man in the middle, and where they get to see exactly what content you are downloading.

They arent spoofing the sites cert, your browser is just getting a page from the wrong domain (virgins warning page). They naturally provide the valid virgin cert for their own site and this triggers a HSTS warning.

Plascebo

Mech1 wrote: »

put in 8.8.8.8 as your prefered DNS

then it will work.

Still not working for me, I have the compal bridged, and my c7 has to use dynamic IP. Do I have change the DNS on the compal?

Thanks.

plodder

ED E wrote: »

They arent spoofing the sites cert, your browser is just getting a page from the wrong domain (virgins warning page). They naturally provide the valid virgin cert for their own site and this triggers a HSTS warning.

You'd have to see the cert that is returned to be sure, but from looking at the OP's error, it suggests the cert that was returned was self-signed or has some other certificate authority problem, rather than just being a valid (if unexpected) virginmedia cert. afaik there is a different error for that situation.

Dubwat

If you click the 'advanced' button on the warning page, you get:

proxybay.tv uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.
The certificate is only valid for advice.upc.biz
Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER

Sleeper12

Thargor wrote:

Anything I can do about it? The ethernet cable is 3X the speed of the wifi in this house.

Use WiFi to get onto the proxy and download the torrent. Switch to earthnet cable to download the actual file,movie etc.

Thargor

I know there are workarounds, Im asking for a fix for the ethernet issue.

thomas anderson.

Any fix for this? Showbox is blocked as well

Hellrazer

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Any fix for this? Showbox is blocked as well

You could hide your ass!!!!

demanufactured

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Any fix for this? Showbox is blocked as well

Showbox doesn't even work anymore

thomas anderson.

demanufactured wrote: »

Showbox doesn't even work anymore

It does, but they fixed it recently. Can get on to the unmentionable sites using tor though

demanufactured

thomas anderson. wrote: »

It does, but they fixed it recently.

Not sure what this means.
When I try to use showbox to cast to any device it keeps prompting me to download MX player..

thomas anderson.

demanufactured wrote: »

Not sure what this means.
When I try to use showbox to cast to any device it keeps prompting me to download MX player..

Probably because you are trying to play 720p from the wrong server.

Sleeper12

thomas anderson. wrote:

Any fix for this? Showbox is blocked as well

I'm on virgin and Showbox works fine for me

loyatemu

demanufactured wrote: »

Not sure what this means.
When I try to use showbox to cast to any device it keeps prompting me to download MX player..

you need this

frash

Any other workarounds?
I've a HTPC that I use for TPB and it's Ethernet only.

Only discovered it last night so haven't had a chance to fully investigate it yet

Thargor

Changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8 is the cure if you're on WiFi...

demanufactured

loyatemu wrote: »

you need .this

Already using it the last 12 months....hadn't realised that using different servers from within showbox would cause it to behave dofferntly

twinsen

So terrents are all blocked?

Thargor

Dont know about terrents but torrents are fine if you change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 as posted earlier.

twinsen

Thargor wrote: »

Dont know about terrents but torrents are fine if you change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 as posted earlier.

I thought these works only on wifi, turns out that it works on lan too. Thanks a lot.

2RockMountain

Have they gone harder on the blocking? It took a while to find a TBP proxy that would work, and when I did, I can't get uTorrent to open the relevant link. Any ideas?

twinsen

2RockMountain wrote: »

Have they gone harder on the blocking? It took a while to find a TBP proxy that would work, and when I did, I can't get uTorrent to open the relevant link. Any ideas?

Use magnet links maybe?

2RockMountain

twinsen wrote: »

Use magnet links maybe?

Actually, it looks like it was a problem with that one particular item, rather than a general problem - but thanks for the suggestion anyway.