[ALUG] Bittorrent / Sky / ThePirateBay

[mick]

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:55:52 +0100
Alex Scotton <alex.scotton at gmail.com> allegedly wrote:

> Basically, I download from nowhere else other than thepiratebay,

Don't you mean that you only download from torrents listed by the
piratebay? Piratebay doesn't actually host any content at all.

>and if so does anyone know of a good encrypted proxy?..

Try Tor, though some operators (myself included I may add) actually
block torrents in their exit policies. Too bandwidth hungry. 

> Gathering all the info possible would help for my lovely telephone
> call with a bright and bubbly Sky rep tomorrow; So if any of you other
> poor poor peeps use Sky, can you ping/traceroute
> tracker.thepiratebay.org for me, and in fact even if you aren't with
> sky give it a try for me, and let me know your findings.. ya never
> know maybe it isn't sky but instead a higher power up the line.

The swedish gov forced the upstream provider to block all access to the
piratebay in late august. The site moved and cam back on-line, but I
guess the cat and mouse will continue for a while. I can reach the
webite (piratebay.org on 194.71.107.15) over my Titan (an entanet
reseller) line.

Mick

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