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BT, Virgin Media, O2 and Be There have started to block access to three of the world’s largest BitTorrent sites. The blockades were put in place following a High Court order earlier this year, which ruled that KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy were facilitating copyright infringement. With the sites no longer accessible, hundreds of thousands of UK BitTorrent users will be looking for a new hope, or options to bypass the filters.

KickassTorrents is currently listed among the 50 most visited websites in the UK, but this is about to change.

Starting today, several British Internet providers started blocking the popular torrent site, as well as Fenopy and H33T.

The blockades follow on from the High Court verdict last month which required six ISPs (BT, Sky, Virgin Media, O2, EE and TalkTalk) to block subscriber access to the three torrent sites. The legal action was initiated by the music industry group BPI, representing a variety of major labels.

Previously a similar order took down The Pirate Bay in most of the UK.

According to the High Court ruling the three sites are profiting heavily from the copyright infringements carried out by their users. For example, the annual revenue of KickassTorrents was estimated to be between $12,525,469 and $22,383,918 according to an expert quoted in the verdict.

The verdict doesn’t detail when the blockades should go into effect but TorrentFreak learned that today BT, Virgin Media, O2 and BE began censoring the sites in question. The screenshot below shows the notice Be There subscribers see when they try to access the sites.

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While the blockades of the other ISPs appear to be more nationwide, Virgin Media subscribers report differing results around the country, with some able to access the sites and some not. It is expected that all Virgin customers will be blocked during the hours to come.

Virgin Media block


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The admin of H33T, one of the sites that’s now blocked, told TorrentFreak previously that the blockades are the music industry’s instrument to keep their monopoly intact.

“Attacking H33T is an attack on sharers, that is the real BPI agenda. The BPI and their MAFIAA masters are playing for control of consumption of digital media in the UK. Independent networks of people freely sharing content is a challenge to their broken business model,” he said.

How effective the blockades will be remains to be seen, but they might not be the silver bullet the music industry is hoping for.

Several Dutch and UK Internet providers argued previously that the Pirate Bay blockades were not preventing people from sharing, as BitTorrent traffic didn’t decline after the blockades were implemented.

When The Pirate Bay was blocked hundreds of proxy sites popped up, making it very easy for people to circumvent the blockade. Thus far there are few dedicated reverse proxies for KickassTorrents, Fenopy or H33T, but availability is sure to increase in the days to come.

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It's about restriction of access of information and culture. Since the United States propaganda official program is to deceive their public population, dumb them down, teach them reverse morals, turn us into the worlds most corrupt society, the rest of the world wasn't MEANT to be sustained by the same propaganda which is masked in multiple different TV shows, movies, games, and world trends. This sophistication of psychologically being in charge of people in this certain manner wasn't meant to reach other countries as much as it is.

The United States of America will either be completely destroyed soon, or the people of the country will rise up and take it back from the evil scum that has been there for far too long. Technically ever since the Federal Reserve bank was setup in the United States we have been under the authority of an indirect never seen nor heard of threat. The power structure comes from The Morgans, the Rockefeller's and the Rothschild's but it is not confined to them either. They finance many new things in the United States that is determined to destroy the citizens first by moral degradation (getting the people to love a culture of death) by making war look glorious and giving the soldiers a false form of glory and honor when really, they could really care less about our troops.

The reason this is happening also has to do with a form of compliance trainings well.

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The admin of H33T always says what i'm thinking pretty much.

This type of behavior is unacceptable. I would have ZERO sympathy for people working at some of the evil places

if they went to work one day with a fertilizer truck parked in front of their offices.

People are killed for FAR less around the world.

I think maybe we need like LOIC or something bundled with all file sharing programs

and every time they do something like this we pay back the favor.. you take our freedom ? we take yours.. simple as that.

I hope these scumbags sleep with one eye open and truly realize how many people want these select few puppet masters dead..

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