UK ISPs block The Promo Bay

Re:UK ISPs block The Promo Bay by jsolson on Sunday December 02, 2012 @06:54PM (#4863166)

How is the blocking being carried out?

For example, if you switch to Google DNS, does that get around the issue?

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Re:UK ISPs block The Promo Bay by gabemart on Sunday December 02, 2012 @07:22PM (#4863263)

I don't know how the blocking is actually being done, but it's not via DNS. I've been using 8.8.8.8 at home and piratebay.org remains blocked.

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Re:UK ISPs block The Promo Bay by barrkel on Sunday December 02, 2012 @07:50PM (#4863358)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_sys...

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Re:UK ISPs block The Promo Bay by Lagged2Death on Sunday December 02, 2012 @08:15PM (#4863419)

Sounds like a VPN will completely and invisibly bypass the block. So the filtering will only inconvenience the least sophisticated (and from the point of view of the "content industry," the least scary) violators.

It's a plan that might have been drafted by the highest levels of organized piracy, to keep the hoi polloi in their thrall.

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Re:UK ISPs block The Promo Bay by sdfjkl on Sunday December 02, 2012 @07:43PM (#4863338)

IP based, so using a different DNS resolver doesn't help.

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