Is PirateBay block now in effect??

Is PirateBay block now in effect??

I am trying to load the website but it isn't working anymore, was yesterday...Anybody else having problems now?

having same issues

Seems the entire /24 for PirateBay (194.71.107.0/24) has vanished from the internet. Doesn't look like a block to me, looks like someone has pulled the plug completely.

In reply to a post by BlueBolt1:

Is PirateBay block now in effect??

I am trying to load the website but it isn't working anymore, was yesterday...Anybody else having problems now?

Looks like it is , But plenty of ways around their dumb ass blocking/censoring methods if you do some digging

In reply to a post by mixt:

Seems the entire /24 for PirateBay (194.71.107.0/24) has vanished from the internet. Doesn't look like a block to me, looks like someone has pulled the plug completely.

There could be some sort of issue, but i reached it just minutes ago using one of the many proxies that they set up to counter this bs , firewall of england is now running

It's also not available from the US (just got someone I know to test). So this looks global. Probably an outage, or they have had their link pulled. It looks pretty major, what ever it is, as the traceroute dies on the first hop for me, and 3-4 hops on my VPS, which normally indicates their BGP advertisement has died a horrid death.

Same here on BE

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Says:

It's just you. http://www.piratebay.com is up.

thepiratebay actually

access to this website has been denied

We have been ordered by the High Court to prevent access to this website as it operates unlawfully. This is a legal obligation that we must comply with. The Court has found that the site and its users infringe copyright material in the UK.

I am on BE tried to access it this morning and couldn't (although no warning message, the site just failed to load) so I VPN tunnelled to Poland and accessed it no problem.

I then realised the router had been reset the other day to use BE DNS servers, changed to opendns and could access the PB no problem (without VPN)

So it may have been down & came back up while I was trying to get around it or it may be blocked on BE/O2 dns - anyone using BE DNS still having trouble accessing it?

It is not currently blocked (by O2/Be anyway)

Apparently suffering a DDOS attack at the moment making it unreachable from some parts of the network, which is why some proxies are also not working.

news here

Think it's a definite block now. DNS changing may work for some, depends on how their ISP is blocking the piratebay for them.

But if I use proxy websites such as http://tpb.fl.ax/ the website loads instantly...

DDoS apparently.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-suffers-local...

If it was a block they would be displaying a message stating it was blocked (like Virgin Media) as I and others have said it is a DDoS attack. I cannot access the site through VPN now.

Seems to be back now.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/16/tpb_attack/

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Proprietary and Illegal Content

You may not post proprietary content or links to sites which distribute or promote the distribution of illegal material or otherwise encourage breaking the law.

not going to post the link, but works well this morning

using a vpn and found that to my surprise my upload speed was 20 mb and my profile is only 10, tend to use google for the most part and if the torrent of interest comes up on tpb or another site known to me...