The High Court recently ruled that U.K. ISPs must block torrent site The Pirate Bay. Though this sets a dangerous precedent, a large amount of torrenters probably responded, “Well that sucks, but it ain’t no thing,” as most torrenters probably realize that there are many popular torrent site alternatives, and various ways to get around an ISP block on The Pirate Bay if the alternatives aren’t up to par. The Pirate Bay recently responded to the High Court ruling and suggested a few ways around the blockage.

As The Pirate Bay tends to do when responding to legal threats, they responded in the extreme (though sometimes, admittedly, their extremes make too much sense):

The Western countries of the world all complaints about the censorship in Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and so on. But they are really the worst culprits themselves, having double morals in doing an even worse thing themselves.

The post then goes on to offer various ways around the block.

Using a VPN service. TPB suggests the aggressively named IPredator

Using an anonymous network, such as TOR or I2P

Or one could change their DNS settings using OpenDNS

Of course, one could also move on to use other torrent sites, as there are quite a bit of popular, active communities out there. Sure, it’ll be obnoxious for U.K. users when they’re looking for something that they just can’t seem to find anywhere and now cannot check the most popular torrent site for said item, but it doesn’t take too long to install TOR or set up a VPN.

It’s probably worth noting that we here at Geekosystem don’t condone straight up piracy, but we also don’t condone egregious censorship or selective punishment.

(via The Pirate Bay)

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