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Re:High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs by drucken on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:40AM (#3909428)
Five ISPs - Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media.

Sixth ISP, British Telecom, has requested a few more weeks to further consider its position and the claimant, BPI has agreed.

However, since these ISP, in particular Virgin Media, cover by far the largest broadband users in the UK, for most intents and purposes this affects the whole UK.

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Re:High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs by rlpb on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:51PM (#3910389)
> However, since these ISP, in particular Virgin Media, cover by far the largest broadband users in the UK, for most intents and purposes this affects the whole UK.

It will cover the majority of non-piratebay users. The piratebay users will just switch to one of the ISPs that is not one of those five.

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Re:High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs by hobin on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:47PM (#3910705)
Err... No, they won't. Switching ISPs is the most time-consuming thing to do when all you want to do is visit a site that is being blocked. There are many more practical approaches.
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