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At least in some countries... In the UK we have: http://cl.ly/image/3m2C40432q0u


Yep, in Belgium you get: http://imgur.com/7qAwh

I'm surprised - I wonder if it's the same thing in other EU countries?


At least not all of them - I can see the page without problems (Germany).



The Netherlands as well.


Then I believe Luxembourg blocks it, too...


fax, really?


Shows how much they care :-)


I don't. Turns out its because I get it on ipv6, and my tunnel terminates in the US I guess (or they don't filter ipv6)


Works fine for me. I'm using enta.net for access, and it's completely unfiltered as far as I'm aware.


Lol, Enta. I bailed on them when they cut my connection after one of those silly letters from US lawyers, because my wife had downloaded "Nurse Betty" here in UK.

Now i'm on Virgin, on a much faster connection. piratebay is "blocked" but i just use one of the 99 mirrors around and life is good.



Same shit in Denmark.

Oh was, now I run Google DNS.


Here's a shell script (last line Mac-only) to open the pirate bay, regardless of the block (at least in the Netherlands).



use Tor


Easier to use one of the many proxies, like the one run by the Pirate Party: https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/


Indeed. For anyone in .nl whose providers were forced to block them: http://fucktimkuik.org


Here's a big proxy list: http://proxybay.info




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