TPB now Blocked in the uk!

http://www.flixster.com/user/phubbs1 · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 8:26 pm

^ Hey! that link to PB works fine!! what the hell!!!?

Also I use U-Torrent as my download engine so I'm pretty up to date for downloading torrents, but when you try from PB using a proxy nothing happens.

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 12:35 am

............. Hubbs made a post NOT about a film !!

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 1:58 am

robmead wrote:

............. Hubbs made a post NOT about a film !!

Meh...its still about downloading films though....... Laughing

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 5:58 am

http://www.flixster.com/user/phubbs1 · Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 7:20 am

thetazzzz wrote:

This vpn should let you browse the site vpnreactor the free version only lets you on at half an hour at a time then you have to wait another half an hour to go back on again LOL ..The pro version does not look to bad
https://www.vpnreactor.com/

When they first block it this link would of got you into the site
http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/

But as already been said isohunt should have its torrents index anyway ..

Can someone explain to me how this link to PB seems to work fine!? I don't get it, brilliant but eh?

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:10 pm

Looks like it backfired! Laughing

Quote:

Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-enjoys-12-million-traffic-boost-shares-unblocking-tips-120502/

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:36 pm

djdezzie wrote:

Looks like it backfired! Laughing

Quote:

Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-enjoys-12-million-traffic-boost-shares-unblocking-tips-120502/

LOL I seen that, and now that TPB is blocked in India too, I do hope TPB servers are ready for that number to jump 10 fold. The war for the freedom of the web is really starting to heat up. Ready yourselves mates!

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:08 pm

bittorrent may eventually be outlawed and i could just use the old market and buy my CDs and DVDs, but I am more worried about the internet spying bills being pushed around the world. SOPA, CISPA, ACTA, C-11, C30, and others mean the Gov't can spy on you legally yet countries putting forward these bills still have the Constitution, the Magna Carta, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and such documents protecting our privacy. Its a contradiction.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 6:58 am

If you're having problems with "Magnet" torrents this site will convert them to ordinary .torrent files:

http://magnet2torrent.me/

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:32 pm

robmead wrote:

If you're having problems with "Magnet" torrents this site will convert them to ordinary .torrent files:

http://magnet2torrent.me/

bookmarked, and thanks Wink

And if for some wild chance you don't have a magnet or a torrent, but ya got the hash then you can use this link below to create a magnet, and then use Robs link to get your torrent. I hope utorrent incorporates this in the near future. Drag and drop a hash into utorrent and be done with it. No more torrent files to upload, just copy paste the hash. Rewards for bit torrent sites are, a dramatic decrease in bandwidth usage, and my favorite is there is no files to request a dmca take down. Laughing

I think we will be seeing hash only sites in the near future

http://thelocalbay.scam site.au/

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:01 pm

I think your right mate hash only sites will be the future a hash with a name on it Laughing

I still think a torrent needs a good tracker to get it started imo.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:29 pm

thetazzzz wrote:

I think your right mate hash only sites will be the future a hash with a name on it Laughing

I still think a torrent needs a good tracker to get it started imo.

Actually I have downloaded several files trackerless using only DHT. Yes it starts out slower, but it will get the job done. Best way is with hash and then post what tracker you using, again just a character string, no files. Perhaps an addon for utorrent that queries all trackers in a database would solve this. P2P needs to evolve past trackers though as they make easy targets for the evil empire of pole smoking duchebags that mean to stifle us.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:06 pm

The funny thing is people at the TPB think that these magnetic links is a new tech but it been out for years .Its just being used more now and is a wee bit up to date now not but not much !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
Its still has its problems and no site has a set format yet and you dont have this limitation with a .torrent ..I know you can go into your client uncheck the files you don't want but they will need to works on this a bit more.

Quote:

In practice though, since the technology is still being actively developed, some kinks still creep up. Up until very recently, many of the major BitTorrent clients didn't support magnet links at all. After the Pirate Bay introduced them, this is no longer a problem, but there are still things to work out. Indexer sites haven't agreed on a single link format, so it’s up to the clients to support the various implementations. And for the users, the experience isn't on par with using plain .torrent files yet. For example, magnet links on the Pirate Bay don't have any additional data on the torrent other than its content so when the link is opened in uTorrent, for example, the torrent won't have a name or list the files in it.

This leads to a second problem, without knowing the contents of the torrent, uTorrent starts downloading it directly in the default location, preventing users from selecting a custom location or selecting just some files in a multiple-file torrent. These are likely to be just temporary set-backs, the recently-launched TorrIndex, the world's first magnet link-only BitTorrent indexer, is listing links which have additional information like tracker URLs and the torrent's name. And with broader support from BitTorrent clients and indexers, magnet links will eventually replace .torrent files sooner than you might expect.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/BitTorrent-Magnet-Links-Explained-132536.shtml

If downloaded from a magnet utorrent creates a torrent file anyway in C:\Users\......\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
If you ever need them lol

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 3:21 am

http://www.pcworld.com/article/255331/the_pirate_bay_supporters_hack_virgin_media.html

Quote:

Virgin Media suffered a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its website at the hands of The Pirate Bay supporters yesterday.

The Virgin Media website was taken down during the DDoS attack, which lasted one hour from 5pm last night.

It is believed that the attack occurred as a protest against the internet service provider (ISP) blocking users' access to the file-sharing website since 2 May, following a High Court order.

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:23 am

Hmm according to torrentfreak they what it stopped
Link

Quote:

The Pirate Bay is not happy with the “anonymous” groups who decided to DDoS Virgin Media for complying with a court order.

Last week Virgin was the fist ISP to block The Pirate Bay.

According to The Pirate Bay these DDoS attempts go against a free Internet.

On Facebook (of all places) The Pirate Bay writes:

We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us.

So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship.

If you want to help; start a tracker, arrange a manifestation, join or start a pirate party, teach your friends the art of bittorrent, set up a proxy, write your political representatives, develop a new p2p protocol, print some pro piracy posters and decorate your town with, support our promo bay artists or just be a nice person and give your mom a call to tell her you love her.