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Eircom block PirateBay.org – Internet Censorship
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 3rd, 2009 | 2 Comments
The beginning of internet censorship has begun in Ireland, with Eircom getting the ball rolling by blocking the Internet’s most popular torrent downloading site, The Pirate Bay. After recently losing a court case, Eircom have now been forced to block any domain that is currently hosted on the PirateBay server's or any domain that directs to the PirateBay ip address. The image below is what appears when you try to visit The PirateBay.org:
The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) plans to bring the remaining ISP in Ireland to court to try and get them to follow Eircom and block access to the site too.
I wonder how long this ban will actually last, surely people do not want their internet censored, so if Eircom can easily block this one site, surly they will not hesitate in the future to block more.Take That ISP
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments
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The pirate bay have fought back now against the isp's that decide to begin to ban people that are downloading illegal files from sites such as the pirate bay, this will most likely annoy the IRMA (the Irish Recorded Music Association) here in ireland as they intended on using people's ip address to ban them.
The new service is called IPREDator, basically this service will cloak your ip address by putting it through a virtual server and then you will be able to download anonymously, the service is currently in BETA and you can go to there site to sign up for a beta pass. When it is finally launched it will cost about €5 a month, now that really cheap!
The great thing is that IPREDator will not store any of your information in log files and it will make the task of your isp trying to block you a lot harder.
Take that IRMA and Eircom!