Our Network: VGFacts - DidYouKnowGaming? - The Spriters Resource - Muscle Tower


User(s) Viewing This Thread: 1 Guest(s)
Post Reply 
The Pirate Bay - Blocked in the UK
Author Message
Beio Offline
Banned

Posts: 4
Joined: May 2012
Post: #16
RE: The Pirate Bay - Blocked in the UK
Tthe industry goes all freaksho over the internet, but it's like bootlegged tapes have been around since..... basically forever.

Wasnt Katy Perry also banned in eAngland?
(This post was last modified: 05-19-2012 11:00 PM by Beio.)
05-19-2012 10:58 PM
Find all posts by this user Thank this post Quote this message in a reply
Login or Register to remove these ads!
Goemar Offline
The Slug-Copter Sucks
***

Posts: 1,849
Joined: Jul 2008
Reputation: 31
Post: #17
RE: The Pirate Bay - Blocked in the UK
Meh I liked Pirate Bay. Though to say it's blocked it seems to be well... still there?

But yeah slapping WHAT YOU WANT + TORRENT into Google serves the same purpose so I really don't know what this has achieved... I guess it gives the higher-ups something to pat themselves on the back about?

The only thing I ever got were TV Shows (Adventure Time, Storage Wars etc.) which are things I could just legally record off the damn TV so it's just annoying that downloads of these aren't available anyway. I'm too lazy to go to my parent's house, go into "recorded-series" play an episode, record it, edit it and then transfer it to my PS3 so now I'm simply not going to watch those shows* (no TV here, not worth the license money ith BBC i-player and all that) so it's not like they've suddenly made me have to give them money.

Still think people who pirate pretty much all there 360 games are dicks though. With how cheap rental games are there's really no good reason.

*if I didn't know how to use Google

[Image: randomimage.cgi]
05-21-2012 02:40 PM
Visit this user's website Find all posts by this user Thank this post Quote this message in a reply
[-] Thanked by
BlueBlur97 (05-21-2012), HandToeKnee (05-22-2012)
Alisbet Offline
The Brave
*

Posts: 39
Joined: May 2010
Reputation: 0
DeviantArt
Post: #18
RE: The Pirate Bay - Blocked in the UK
Well, does it matter that it's blocked? I am sure there are other better alternatives.

Power of People is stronger than People in Power.
05-22-2012 06:43 PM
Find all posts by this user Thank this post Quote this message in a reply
Previous Away
Posting Freak
***

Posts: 3,645
Joined: May 2008
Reputation: 81
Resource - Models Resource - Sounds Resource - Sprites Resource - Textures
Post: #19
RE: The Pirate Bay - Blocked in the UK
(05-22-2012 06:43 PM)Alisbet Wrote:  Well, does it matter that it's blocked? I am sure there are other better alternatives.

(05-05-2012 12:00 PM)Raz Wrote:  It's not so much the fact that they've blocked The Pirate Bay, it's HOW they've blocked it. The assumption was that the block would be DNS based much like the block BT had set up for newzbin, put simply they block the domain name but not the IP Address; This does not appear to be the case though. The simple solution would have been to simply change DNS provider from Virgin Media's own to OpenDNS or Google's DNS and that would effectively bypass the block altogether. That did not happen. The consequence of this is that it means Virgin Media are doing more than DNS filtering and indeed must be doing highly invasive deep packet inspecting in order to filter TPB. Sadly from this deep packet inspection it's only a short ways away from some of the strictest bandwidth shaping that could potentially block all peer2peer traffic, or any traffic VM deems to be too substantial that it's affecting their network.

That's it basically, really.

Avatar courtesy of Mighty Jetters
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2012 07:29 PM by Previous.)
05-22-2012 07:12 PM
Visit this user's website Find all posts by this user Thank this post Quote this message in a reply
[-] Thanked by
BlueBlur97 (05-23-2012)
Post Reply 


Forum Jump:


 Quick Theme:


Login or Register to remove this ad!