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As TPB only lists the trackers you don't need to go to the expense of a VPN to get the info - you can either just seek it on some other site (google for what you want) or a simple proxy will probably allow you to access TPB itself unless you pick one that is also blocked.
For me torrents are a PITA because some local idiot feels it is essential that he seeds flat out 24x7 and just one person doing this is enough to completely screw up a few streets on the miserably poor VM network.
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its wrong because its the catalyst for further censorship, its not going to stop on 1 site.
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You are correct, as newzbin was the first.
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newzbin working here no proxy or VPN. 
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Are you using VM's DNS servers?
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Is it blocked at IP level?
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Fair play.. Only took them 24 hours.
http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html
...and then took someone I know just 2 minutes to find an alternative.
As TPB say "no copyright is being infringed upon here at the site", they are just an index, like Google. OK, so they are more specific in what their index contains, but I tend to agree that it's a bit 'off' of the UK courts to force ISP's to impose a block like this.
If copyright was being infringed by TPB then they may have had a case, but what has happened is more George Orwell than I personally can accept.
Why have the ISP's just rolled over and accepted the ruling? If it were my business being issued with a court order, I'm sure I would have had my lawyers check out the legality of the order first.
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Why have the ISP's just rolled over and accepted the ruling? BT did put up a fight with Newzbin and lost. I don't think any ISP will contest any of these court orders now.
It won't make the slightest difference to the levels of piracy, of course. Only legal alternatives can do that.
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surprised they blocked SE domain as well it was .com before (its like newzbin2.es is still usable) unless the order is generic block order (or just IP block)
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Is virgin going to block Google next? If they have to block pirate bay I fail to see the difference myself.
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I don't see the point in moaning about it here. Perhaps we can ask Julian Assange (didn't bother to check the correct spelling) if wikileaks was privy to any information before this ruling came in to place.
I for one am going to reduce my package with VM to the bare minimum. The only reasons I won't leave are that I don't want to have a phone line installed, and I have never had any problems with my connection.. At the end of the day TPB itself didn't break any laws here. It is a glorified search engine - so on that note I suppose the likes og Google and Yahoo will be the next to succumb. What about the search manager on your windows startup menu? You might have a torrent file on your computer and now you would have the ability to search for it
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something just crossed my mind. current prices to buy software andf media in the uk is quite high - no doubt increased due to the threat of so called piracy. Now that the major search site - tPB has been blocked, will prices start to come down? I doubt it!!
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newzbin still loads here but I find it interesting I couldnt get it to come up in a search on bing as if bing have filtered it.
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Bing may have defaulted to a safe search. i.e. blocking 18+ which it may have categorised newzbin as due to the content of some groups
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erm.........has anyone noticed, if you use anonymouse.org it completely circumvents virgins blocking?
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or someone elses DNS
No. They are blocking the IP so you need a proxy or VPN. Or just use one of the hundreds of alternate urls (which I'm guessing are either proxies or mirrors) which I'm sure a quich search will provide.
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Any working proxy that has access to the site will bypass the block. That's what proxies do.
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