Sky is blocking proxy sites...
 

... even though they haven't been told to by the Courts.

Believe in better;) http://thenextweb.com/uk/2013/06/03/...-site-proxies/

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The article states:

"It’s hard to know for certain whether other ISPs will follow suit and restrict access to the proxies but one source familiar with the matter told The Next Web that the blocks will be extended to other ISPs as they are a result of the most recent additions to the block list, rather than a decision taken only by Sky Broadband. The source said the list now includes proxies for the first time, but only if their sole purpose is to provide access to a blocked website."

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That's why i use a vpn so my isp cannot stop me accessing what i want to access :)

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noticed the Pirate proxy has been down for a few days now

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It was a matter of time really. Run your own socks/http proxy, or VPN for less than a pound a month if you must access TPB etc. You can even proxy your torrenting...

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There was a list of about 8 sites in the Torrentfreak article about this, but I could load up 5 of them with no problem at all. The three that didn't work all had a court ordered domain name with proxy simply appended to it.

It is totally wrong that media companies are able to get sites blocked and control such a block list in the way they have. The same companies have got ARM to include hardware DRM style protection on the new chips for the next generation phones too. Politics and money to get what they want.

The blocks don't affect me as I don't use the sites/could easily bypass if I wanted, but the censoring of sites by them annoys me a lot. I won't be renewing my Sky TV subscription or paying for tv again, never again paying to watch a movie at the cinema, not buying any more DVD/Blu-ray/streaming movies, no music cd's/paid mp3 downloads (unless indie artist) or any on demand movies or sports pay per views. Beyond internet radio I will try and not use anything that helps them get money.

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I don't use torrents unless they are private sites and then it once in a blue moon that i do. However i have the right to use my connection to access the Internet and i will not be happy if my isp takes the same route as sky and bans sites that they have not been requested to ban. My VPN has never let me down yet thankfully.

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It wouldn't surprise me if the media companies eventually try to take down well known VPN providers or force them to block the same sites too. They have done the NZB indexers, squeezed the financing options for binary newsgroup providers, got some torrent sites blocked, get google to remove millions of links a month, File Lockers like Mega and others and using that to force others to stop, using paypal to stop payment to some torrent sites and now going for the attack on ad providers as well as talking to those placing ads. So VPN's will be on the list in one way or the other.

Anyone can setup a VPN or use free ones, Tor or even simple http/php proxy sites to bypass the blocks. The media companies just want to stop those not so determined or new to downloading.

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In fact, no need to even use a proxy. Use Opera to browse and turn on Turbo mode. Bypasses the blocks.

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Arh a move by one of "Rupert Murdoch" companies......... pointless

Good point whatever these greedy media companies do there will be always a few work around methods as per standard so it the normal thing we see every time:

Greedy media corporations move = free market at least moves 3 times or more as put:

Free enterprise market (internet) wins again & more ground every time when these idiots try to control/corner the market with a useless motions in useless court orders. They only want to see money in there hands not a level media retail pricing model.... No amount of money they throw at their very own made problem which how this foolish copyright argument got started in first place.

They never moved with times of their mass market audience who use to or buys there goods...simply put as that. Pirate sites offer that, simple but a large back catalogue of material at arms length even the out of printed media which you can't get now from the music corporations. :erm:

I can't get why don't they just put this silly argument to bed & out of it misery as it can be easy solved by them facing facts, they don't control the media market any more as they think they do but the buying masses do; as all the material is out there ready to had........:dozey:

There's a saying;

You can put the gene back in the bottle once it out of it......:D


Yes opera is solid browser; that makes life easy
As for Firefox + Chrome you can use proxymate


Toonlight

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They have only scratched the tip of Usenet. Plenty of good indexing sites up and running now and still getting good completion in the main from new servers. Only really TV is messed by DMCA but as long as you get what you want quick and don't leave it till the season ends you can get what you want. NZBMatrix took itself down also only really newzbin taken down by legal manes

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Virgin have started to block the same proxies today.

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Only some as have BT and TalkTalk but not as much as Sky's done. The one's blocked do show the Court order notice so its something VM has had to comply with.

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More should be done by the Court service and ISP's to eradicate piracy.

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Not when it leads to censoring the internet. Now this has started over the next few years we will see political web sites blocked under the guise that they hold extreme views. Mark my words, this is what will happen as it progresses. Starts witg something as small as essentially a company with lots of money blocking websites will nilly

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It’s not something that really worries me.

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TPB's is back up on sky BB

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First off here "Chad" do try at your own free will; stop listening to mainstream media lies, as if I can say part of your reply looked like a piece from the paid pro-copyright PR lobbyists company. Just a thought ;)

You must be joking me....I nearly choked on my own tongue:confused: The only way to cure this problem as I've said here more times than I've had hot dinners. (jokes welcome folks)

Problem: greedy media corporations sowing up the market, as they only a few in number which have greater controls of all media materials than in the past in present times in form copyright laws. They lobbied the government for it, I guess enough money filled brown envelopes was passed around the government boardroom over time to get the vote they wanted :td:

The cure: open out the whole media model to a even playing field in rights in use as which PTB put the media market corporations. Which they wasn't even interested in so hence we have this stand off.

You can't govern the internet, it's to big to bring law & order to plus it's isn't the isp job to pick or choose who gets what on the internet as it was built around a free access model..hence free speech oh yes it's part of your human rights too :p: funny thing.

Yes it's the slippery slope, the total take over to a "1984" style government on the internet. As with all things in the game of cat (government) + mouse (people) with one move from the government there another from the free mind liberal people the cancels out the previous opponents move to trap & kill off opposite countering side....just like chess you have to play it in a well thought out manner same here.

More these mega "media media corporations" push to try to close & corner the public down, more they will suffer....... lose in lost profits in all the operations they put out. As simply put it's only going one way; in the people favour when we all stand up against these mind media copyright thugs....just by simply not buying their products/services/not abiding to court orders plus pirating their material to rub there noses in it...more so if they make bigger profits. If they don't see sense which don't think it's going to happen in up in coming future. When that happens best the two sides draw out a even balanced business media model unlike now in present times.

toonlight

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Within the next 20 I fully expect it to be normal that anyone who uses the internet will need to login with their own unique login/passport or they don't get access. It would help governments to spy on everyone as well as let copyright owners pinpoint infringers exactly instead of to a shared home IP.

I expect sites of political groups like the EDL to be banned. The UKIP is lucky to have formed when it did as i'm pretty sure in the future they wouldn't be allowed to have a website under the 'inciting hate' type banner reason.

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toon, you do realise that the internet is provided by the mega-corporations, just like all the equipment that makes it work?

If it wasn't for the Telecoms companies, there wouldn't be an internet....

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Stay off the pot buddy ;)

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To clear this issue chad do you work for a corrupt lobbyist company? I mentioned this as it's word for word or some would say taking words out of a small mind brain washed hungry person mouth that works for a PR/lobbyist company that how it looks to me. Need I look more deeper? by not choosing to be direct more than divert the issue else where says a fair bit in anybodies mind Chad; no offence or flame.

Just a quick reply I don't smoke anything legal or illegal, sorry to burst your bubble chad. Do stay on track with rest of us here.


My regrets going off subject people :)

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You don't smoke - that doesn't rule out other methods....... ;)

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Vaporizer FTW!

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Yes very much so, but it's not the "Telecoms companies" that are the problem beside spying on us & gathering data but that's different issue. It's the mega media corporations that are the problem as they started all this whole problem/mess off, they want the whole media market sown up tight but they haven't been able not yet but their trying in any form mainly copyright, which is a stupid issue in the first place.

They use courts to do there bidding, trying to force ISP's to set up LEO/LEA monitoring grid to police their customers little by little or through lobbied government laws that try to withhold our human rights in the name of profit though the powers that be won't say that.

I hope that answers your inquiry's Hugh

toonlight

---------- Post added at 20:48 ---------- Previous post was at 20:43 ----------

Arh really Hugh..... if you know so much why don't you tell us more about it... I'm waiting as rest of us are, chad raised the pot angle, you mention other methods...... you & chad hiding something from all of us? :o:

All my replies & comments are to taken any way one see fit- take it or leave it. Just don't say I told you so when it does happen.... then it's to late. :erm:

Again sorry for going of subject again folks....:dozey:

Toonlight

---------- Post added at 20:51 ---------- Previous post was at 20:48 ----------

You using a "e cigarette" good buddy? :D

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YES Your IP address has been added to my naughty list :D

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Have this to clam you down poor soul :beer::drunk: after :sleeping: before you :Sprint: to work the next day.