Hello guys,

I've been humming and harring for days now, over what's been going on with The Pirate Bay tracker....

Basically, I download from nowhere else other than thepiratebay, hastening to delete all other trackers from torrents before starting downloads; however over the last few days I've noticed a rapid decline in my download speeds, and noticed differences between the number of seeders published on thepiratebay site and what I actually get in bittorrent...

So after about 30 seconds of investigation today realised that bittorrent was registering tracker.thepiratebay.org as "offline(timed out)"; assuming the worst I headed over to suprbay.org only to find out that the tracker was indeed up and running fine, so i decided to ping/traceroute tracker.thepiratebay.org and have found that it is possible for me to resolve the IP linked to the hostname but not in fact get there:

traceroute to tracker.thepiratebay.org (192.121.86.7), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 myrouter.home (192.168.0.1) 1.224 ms 1.632 ms 2.040 ms 2 cr0.eacos.uk.easynet.net (87.87.253.19) 62.079 ms 62.576 ms 63.556 ms 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * ........

So assuming that Sky had done the dirty deed; I switched to OpenDNS and unfortunetly the same story there as I guessed there would be, because all they provide me with is resolutions and the direction for the IP linked to the hostname, right? they are as they say a Domain Name Server... so if Sky don't want me going somewhere, then I ain't getting there, even if I use OpenDNS. So would I be able to get around this using a proxy? and if so does anyone know of a good encrypted proxy?.. so i can say a big F**k you to Sky... (I am by the way calling them tomorrow to ask them why I can't connect to it)

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.

Thanks in advance

Alex Scotton