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Blocked Websites on Virgin Media
a01020304
09-12-2016
Am quite shocked by how many websites have been blocked by Virgin, so much for Internet Freedom

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...t=Court_Orders
JasonWatkins
09-12-2016
Nothing is truly blocked online if you have a VPN or just add the word "proxy" to the search term.

The UK ISP's simply stopped bothering contesting these blocking orders years ago so the copyright holders only have to trot up to court with the latest list and they're immediately granted.
blueblade
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by a01020304:
“Am quite shocked by how many websites have been blocked by Virgin, so much for Internet Freedom

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...t=Court_Orders”

Utterly meaningless and child's play to get round.

I don't know why they bother, tbh.
Ads
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by a01020304:
“Am quite shocked by how many websites have been blocked by Virgin, so much for Internet Freedom

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/s...t=Court_Orders”

This si the tip of the iceberg - remember the Government is seriously considering bringing in age checks for 'adult material' websites. Websites that don't have age checks would then get blocked.
Thine Wonk
09-12-2016
yet I'm on Virgin and I can still get to The Pirate Bay, which shows just how out of touch the BPI are and how pointless it is. If they invested more time into content creation and making systems better and more accessible to people, getting rid of silly restrictions on legally purchased content and different release dates per region etc then people would have less reason to go to these sites, however it is sometimes easier to get content via those sites because the official sites don't let you view the content in your region because of release dates, or charge silly amounts and put silly restrictions in place to get the content legally and then put it on your devices.

http://thepiratebayz.org
JasonWatkins
09-12-2016
Thing is, the original pirate bay .org URL is up and working at the moment as well, so it makes all of this even more ridiculous.
sodavlac
09-12-2016
I like that list, it's given me a couple of extra sites to try out that I'd never heard of before.
St Dabeoc
09-12-2016
I believe the ISP Nasty Letter Scenario is finally being triggered in the New Year for P2P
Thine Wonk
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by JasonWatkins:
“Thing is, the original pirate bay .org URL is up and working at the moment as well, so it makes all of this even more ridiculous.”

Not on Virgin it's not and they anti-piracy groups are only concentrating on the big ISPs, maybe you're not on Virgin or BT etc.
cobaye22
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by St Dabeoc:
“I believe the ISP Nasty Letter Scenario is finally being triggered in the New Year for P2P”

Eight years later I'm actually going to get a letter?
killjoy
09-12-2016
Opera has a built in VPN
St Dabeoc
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by cobaye22:
“Eight years later I'm actually going to get a letter?”

but did you enjoy Kung Fu Panda?
SmoggyTheTowny
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by killjoy:
“Opera has a built in VPN”

Something that has been quite handy this past week, it has turned a slow work connection from being "wanting to pull your own teeth slow" to "wanting to punch the screen" slow.
jjesso123
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by Thine Wonk:
“Not on Virgin it's not and they anti-piracy groups are only concentrating on the big ISPs, maybe you're not on Virgin or BT etc.”

I'm with talktalk and can access probably the biggest pirate site directly from it's main domain.

Regarding letters how is going work exactly am I going get letter for every episode I download of torrents sites ?

At worst people will just move to VPN's or downloading from sites like mega etc.
Lyricalis
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by cobaye22:
“Eight years later I'm actually going to get a letter?”

Probably more than that later on. Surely the entertainment industry can't have missed that soon the UK will have records of all the internet addresses people are visiting? How long before they get on 'the list' of organisations who get access to it?

While they won't be able to prove you downloaded anything from those sites by this alone, I'm sure the extortion letter they'll send to people will rake in the sort of money that would make other organised crime syndicates jealous.
St Dabeoc
09-12-2016
UK ISPs to Send Internet Piracy Warning Letters from Early 2017

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...arly-2017.html
cobaye22
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by Lyricalis:
“Probably more than that later on. Surely the entertainment industry can't have missed that soon the UK will have records of all the internet addresses people are visiting? How long before they get on 'the list' of organisations who get access to it?

While they won't be able to prove you downloaded anything from those sites by this alone, I'm sure the extortion letter they'll send to people will rake in the sort of money that would make other organised crime syndicates jealous.”

Nobody cares dude, I have torrented my ass without VPN for nearly a decade and diddly squat.
(NTL,Virgin,BT, Talk Talk)
darkjedimaster
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by St Dabeoc:
“I believe the ISP Nasty Letter Scenario is finally being triggered in the New Year for P2P”

I didn't realise people still used P2P.
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