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Bit Torrent

jamsey66 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:15:58 GMT

Is PN restricting access to torrent sites, asking for a friend 😇

Re: Bit Torrent

jab1 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:19:57 GMT

Not so far as I'm aware, so long as they are legit.

Re: Bit Torrent

RobPN — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:10:42 GMT

AFAIR the larger ISPs in the UK restrict access to certain BitTorrent sites which were named in court orders several years ago.

You can access them via a VPN to download the small .torrent file, then once you have that, you can switch the VPN off if you're using a free one which is slow or has limited usage, and then carry on to download the main files using your normal connection.

You may find some blocked ones which you can access by changing your DNS IP addresses.

So a friend of mine tells me.

Re: Bit Torrent

dvorak — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:16:19 GMT

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Re: Bit Torrent

Rgmanby — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 11:46:10 GMT

Exactly what I do for yifi, use mobile either Vodafone or giffgaff to download magnet then swith to WiFi for the rest.
My pirate bay isn't blocked though, just yts?

Re: Bit Torrent

jamsey66 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:45:41 GMT

My friend was accessing them a couple of days ago no problems at all, all he gets now is a privacy page if he says access site it’s just a blank screen, hopefully someone has some ideas

Re: Bit Torrent

jab1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:49:19 GMT

Which site?

Re: Bit Torrent

jamsey66 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:52:33 GMT

PB and EZTV

Re: Bit Torrent

jab1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:57:26 GMT

If PB = Pirate Bay, they are banned under a court order, and ISPs are legally required to block them. No idea what ESTV is.

BTW Do you mean 'Piracy' rather than 'Privacy'?

Re: Bit Torrent

Browni — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:02:35 GMT

EZTV is on the list of blocked sites.

Full list here.

Re: Bit Torrent

jab1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:04:23 GMT

Cheers, @Browni , so @jamsey66 's 'friend' is trying to access legally blocked content.

Re: Bit Torrent

Rgmanby — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:09:31 GMT

My PB works fine?
https://thepiratebay.org/index.html

Re: Bit Torrent

jab1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:15:10 GMT

Weirdly, I can get to the main page, which I find strange as I understand they re blocked by court order, but I wonder if it is because my ISP is not named in the order? I'm going no further than the 'Home' page, though.

Re: Bit Torrent

RobPN — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:23:08 GMT

@Rgmanby wrote:
My PB works fine?
https://thepiratebay.org/index.html

Likewise.

Re: Bit Torrent

Rgmanby — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:31:29 GMT

It's only illegal if you download copyrighted material.
There are lots of bands, devs and amateur film makers who upload their stuff there for free, like github etc, just be careful you only download non copyrighted material.

Re: Bit Torrent

Browni — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:31:54 GMT

@Rgmanby which DNS servers are you using?
I can access the Pirate Bay even though I am on BT. I am using Cloudflare DNS though.

Re: Bit Torrent

Rgmanby — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:33:14 GMT

I'm just using PN through pi-hole.

Re: Bit Torrent

jab1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:34:09 GMT

@Rgmanby wrote:
It's only illegal if you download copyrighted material.
There are lots of bands, devs and amateur film makers who upload their stuff there for free, like github etc, just be careful you only download non copyrighted material.

Fair enough, but I'm still steering clear.

Re: Bit Torrent

jab1 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:13:26 GMT

@Rgmanby I use github, but only for computer programs - from reliable links on sites I trust, or recommendations from trusted sources.

Re: Bit Torrent

Rgmanby — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:33:39 GMT

That's where all my flash roms for STC12c come from too, it really is a good resource for dev's, some clever people out there 👍