The Pirate Bay blocked in UK

Brit Dee, Contributor

Activist Post

Shiver me timbers!

If like me you’re one of Sky’s four million UK broadband customers, yesterday you’ll have found that you were unable to access legendary filesharing site The Pirate Bay. That’s because they’ve blocked it following a court order obtained by BPI, the record industry trade association.

Sky’s block follows Virgin Media’s and Everything Everywhere’s earlier this month, with O2 having until June 13th to deny their customers access to the site, and TalkTalk and BT likely to follow shortly after.

Unfortunately for the big corporations who are trying to censor the Web, the recent blocks seem only to have increased The Pirate Bay’s popularity.



Earlier this month a spokesperson told Torrentfreak blog that the mainstream media’s huge amount of “free advertising” had driven millions more visitors to the site. They gleefully claimed that,

Thanks to the High Court and the fact that the news was on the BBC, we had 12 million more visitors yesterday than we had ever had before…We should write a thank you note to the BPI (British Phonographic Industry).

Equally unfortunate for big businesses such as BPI is the fact that the block is incredibly easy to get around.

Anyone wanting to access the site can do so by using a proxy – general proxies can be found by simply searching for “proxy server” – or visiting the dedicated TPB proxy set up by Pirate Party UK.

Happy seafaring, me hearties.

This article first appeared at ResistRadio.com

Brit Dee’s ResistRadio.com is an independent media website approaching global news, politics and conspiracy theory from a radical, but critical and rational perspective.