5 ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay

[Shaun]

A new court ruling has stated that filesharing site The Pirate Bay enables breaches of copyright laws.

Today (February 20) at the high court in London, Mr Justice Arnold ruled in favour of the record labels and music groups which want the site to be blocked in the UK, as it lets its users illegally download and share music.

The high court will decide in June if the website should be totally blocked to British internet service providers, however, today's ruling makes this outcome seem likely.

Of the ruling, chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry, Geoff Taylor, said, via The Guardian:

The high court today ruled that The Pirate Bay is illegal. The site defrauds musicians and causes huge damage to the music industry and wider creative industries... The ruling helps clarify the law on website blocking and we will now proceed with our application to have the site blocked to protect the UK's creative industries from further harm.


The Pirate Bay has 3.7 million UK users and 30 million users globally. In 2010, its founders had to pay a £4.1 million fine after being found guilty of enabling copyright infringement in Sweden.

hide yo' vids, hide yo' wifi

[Callum]

:(

I hope Demonoid doesn't go next.

[Jords]

isoHunt >>>

[GypsyGoth]

:sad:

[Glenn.]

:eek:

This is another blow.

[Me. I Am Salman]

URGH fgs they need to stop, the world is ending :(
Besides this wtf has happened to mediafire? I mean the site is still there but its incredibly hard to find songs/albums on there now whereas before it was so easy :suspect:

[Shaun]

It's fine for me [MF] but they have a pretty quick response time to taking down links. Just have to be quick I guess :p

[Patrick]

LOL Good.
I hate Torrent Snobs who download stuff that you can watch online anyway.

[Locke.]

Awful news, it is the only one I use.

But this only mentions music an stuff, will films and TV episodes be blocked aswell?

[Shaun]

if the site's blocked in the UK then I guess :p

[GypsyGoth]

Awful news, it is the only one I use.

But this only mentions music an stuff, will films and TV episodes be blocked aswell?

I think they plan to block the whole site, use isohunt.

[michael21]

i use isohunt :amazed:

:worship::worship::worship:

[billy123]

That would be no biggy just use the ip address instead to circumvent any block.
put 194.71.107.15 into your browser instead :)

Or install the TOR onion browser which uses a free vpn service and unblocks any blocked sites (and encrypts all data transmissions)
https://www.torproject.org/

or you could just change your DNS settings to use Google DNS OR Open DNS that would unblock it and only takes 30 seconds to do.
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
http://www.opendns.com/

They have been about to shut the pirate bay down since the day it launched yet its still there. I wouldnt sweat it. :hugesmile:

[Sam:)]

Its been blocked over here for a while now
if you try use it from ireland this comes up
http://quicktips.ie/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Screen-shot-2009-09-26-at-17.14.40.png

[billy123]

Its been blocked over here for a while now
if you try use it from ireland this comes up
http://quicktips.ie/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Screen-shot-2009-09-26-at-17.14.40.pngdoes putting the ip adress into the browser bypass it for you?

[Sam:)]

no it dosnt:(

[billy123]

no it dosnt:(
oh that sucks they usually just delete the entry from the dns server when they block and the ip adresss still works.

The TOR browser would work though.

[Niall]

Oh no. :(

I don't use this regularly, but I'm becoming progressively more worried now that the torrent sites are starting to go down. http://i.imgur.com/QizyP.gif

[Me. I Am Salman]

It still works here
and it redirects to piratebay.se if i type .org

[Visage]

Crap!

[SoBig]

isohunt, torrentday and demonoid are all better anyway.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

kickasstorrents >

[billy123]

By the way the pirate bay could never go the way of megaupload as the usa have absolutely no jurisdiction to claim a .se domain name they can only shut down .com and in some cases .org domains

Plus there are already other plans in place incase the long long long long long and very expensive attempt to shut down torrent sites was ever successful there is another platform for sharing files ready to run that would involve another long long long long long and very expensive process to shut down :)

You cant put the genie back in the bottle and unless the big record/movie companys catch up they will cease to exist although new movies and music will continue to thrive.

[Niamh.]

yeah, we can't get onto Pirate bay if we have eircom as your internet provider, which most people have

[saigon]

Private Trackers >>>>> **** Public Trackers

[saigon]

isohunt, torrentday and demonoid are all better anyway.

Even they are ****.

IPtorrents >>>

[Shaun]

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.

The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly pirated free music and video.

Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site.

"Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists," the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said.

A sixth ISP, BT, requested "a few more weeks" to consider their position on blocking the site.

BPI's chief executive Geoff Taylor said: "The High Court has confirmed that The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale.

"Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works without paying a penny to the people who created them.

"This is wrong - musicians, sound engineers and video editors deserve to be paid for their work just like everyone else."
'Compelling alternatives'

In November 2011, the BPI asked the group of ISPs to voluntarily block access to the site.

The request followed a court order to block Newzbin 2, a site also offering links to download pirated material.

The ISPs said they would not block the site unless a court order was made, as is now the case.

Virgin Media told the BBC it will now comply with the request, but warned such measures are, in the long term, only part of the solution.

"As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media complies with court orders addressed to the company but strongly believes that changing consumer behaviour to tackle copyright infringement also needs compelling legal alternatives, such as our agreement with Spotify, to give consumers access to great content at the right price."

The Pirate Bay was launched in 2003 by a group of friends from Sweden and rapidly became one of the most famous file-sharing sites on the web.

It allows users to search for and access copyrighted content including movies, games and TV shows.

In April 2009, the Swedish courts found the four founders of the site guilty of helping people circumvent copyright controls.

The ruling was upheld after an appeal in 2010, but the site continues to function.

The Pirate Party UK, a spin-off from the political movement started in Sweden that backs copyright reform, said this latest move will "not put any extra pennies into the pockets of artists".

"Unfortunately, the move to order blocking on The Pirate Bay comes as no surprise," party leader Loz Kaye told the BBC.

"The truth is that we are on a slippery slope towards internet censorship here in the United Kingdom."

Critics of site-blocking argue that such measures are ineffective as they can be circumvented using proxy servers and other techniques.

However, one analyst told the BBC that it was still worthwhile to take court action as it underlines the illegal nature of sites such as The Pirate Bay.

"I know it's fashionable to say 'oh, it just won't work', but we should keep trying," said Mark Little, principal analyst at Ovum.

"We should keep blocking them - they are stealing music illegally.

"The biggest culprits of this, really, are the younger demographic who just haven't been convinced that doing this is somehow morally uncomfortable.

"The principle that downloading music illegally is a bad thing to do has not been reinforced by schools or parents."

But Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, called the move "pointless and dangerous".

"It will fuel calls for further, wider and even more drastic calls for internet censorship of many kinds, from pornography to extremism," he said.

"Internet censorship is growing in scope and becoming easier. Yet it never has the effect desired. It simply turns criminals into heroes."

eek

[Me. I Am Salman]

Oh well I only download music on my PC and www.mp3skull.com is amazing.

[Z]

Like I said in another thread - we're the generation that will feel the impact of the internet becoming regulated. Livia made a great comparison between the internet and the Wild West. It can't remain lawless forever.

[billy123]

sky have finally blocked piratebay but! looooool
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/

[billy123]

take your pick.
http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html

[billy123]

Traffic has increased at an amazing rate since the deciscion to restrict a bit of free publicity goes a long way :)

[Jesus.]

Awful news, it is the only one I use.

But this only mentions music an stuff, will films and TV episodes be blocked aswell?

Fear not.

Virgin blocked it weeks ago.

http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/


Just seen that Bob beat me to the punch.

[Samuel.]

No need to worry tbh. There will always be ways of downloading just about anything.

[Scarlett.]

Am I the only person in the whole world who doesnt torrent stuff, like, at all?

[Niall]

At home we're on Virgin and they've blocked the Pirate Bay :bored:

But I'm in Ireland at the moment, and my Mum's internet is provided by UPC and they don't block it so :amazed: