TorrentFreak is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource

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Court-ordered pirate site blockades are pretty common nowadays. While not everyone sees these as the ideal solution for the problem at hand, they follow the letter of the law. More problematic are the private blocking efforts by various Wifi providers, which we are frequently the target of. Apparently, TorrentFreak is a pirate site too.

From Australia to Sweden, all around the world courts have ordered ISPs to block access to pirate sites.

This usually happens after a careful review by a judge, who weighs the arguments from copyright holders and Internet providers before a final decision is made. That’s a fair process.

However, these court-ordered blockades are only the tip of the iceberg. Much more common are private blocking efforts where local WiFi providers use broad blocklists to shield people from visiting dangerous sites, including the one you’re on now.

This problem is not new but the lack of improvement has become increasingly frustrating.

Earlier this month a reader informed us that he was unable to read our news while staying at a Premier Inn in Croydon. Apparently, the hotel’s Virgin WiFi network banned us for our “Criminal Skills/Hacking, News.”

 

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This is no temporary or local mistake. In recent months we’ve received several reports of similar Virgin WiFi blockades, including from our colleagues at ISPreview. They ran into the same TorrentFreak blockade while conducting a study of WiFi performance in UK hotels.

And it’s not just Virgin that’s doing the blocking here.

This week another reader alerted us that he was unable to access TorrentFreak on a GovWifi connection. This network is used by many government institutions and managed by the Government Digital Service.

Apparently, they, or their blocklist provider, has classified our news site in the “Piracy and Copyright infringement” category, and accessing it would be a violation of the acceptable use policy.

 

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These two recent examples are related to the UK, but these broad blocklists are used elsewhere too. We’ve seen our site blocked in US libraries and airports, Norwegian trains, and even in a Canadian McDonalds.

We have reached out to both Virgin and the Government Digital Service for a comment on the most recent examples. At the time of publication, we have yet to hear back. Perhaps our email is blocked too?

We hope they can eventually shed some light on their motivations. In the meantime, let’s hope our readers have learned enough from our “hacking skills” to know how to bypass these blocks….

 

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We hope they can eventually shed some light on their motivations.

 

Seems like paranoia to me

[steven36]

its not the 1st theme they was blocked in the UK .. Sky Broadband blocked them in 2013 and lifted the blocks  it was a Technical mistake, it dont help with blockers  there name has Torrent in it  .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

Good thing most of there readers already use vpns, because Torrent Freak is sponsored by them and promotes the use of them on there website . This is most likely why Virgin blocked them they always reporting how to get around the blocks .but the UK is veterans  at being blocked, this started in 2012 so most  people there know how to get around them already, the most easy way would be download the tor browser you want need to hunt down no proxy sites or anything ..Also the fact remains for every site they blocked theirs others they have not blocked yet. Some countries like Russia  have laws against vpn advertising unless the vpn has been approved from the state  its a wonder Russia is not blocking them too.

 

In this day and age you should be hiding from your isp if you pirate. people who go on  these sites without a vpn or tor in blockade countries may as well  have called the ISP and told them such and such site has not been blocked yet, because they not blind  and see what sites there users visit. Even if you visit Https sites they can see you visit them but if you change your DNS they cant see what your doing on the site but they still know you there. In the  USA  not using a vpn and using P2P can get your internet disconnected if you dont stop after you been warned. 

 

This  is the funniest shit i ever heard of Verizon witch sends out p2p warnings to there customers  is selling a vpn that blocks targeted ads for $3.99 a Month when there  laws allowing  ISPs like Verizon to poison you're DNS in the USA and harvest your data and show you ads. for 4 bucks you can buy a good vpn not affiliated with a isp. A sucker is born every minute and the masses  have there head screwed on the wrong way are they would not be trusting everything with the ISPs  and Big Tech . I use to be naive like this but i woke up to the fact there is always someone watching.

http://fortune.com/2018/07/28/verizon-safe-wifi-vpn/#