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Old 06-05-2012, 11:18   #179
carlwaring
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Re: The Pirate Bay is blocked (Discuss but do not post detail of how to get round it)

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Originally Posted by mcmanic View Post
eh?, wasn't that many years back when NTL as it was back then stopped the newsgroups carrying the main warez and pirated materials.
I don't remember that far back but of course they had control over their own newgroups, but not the wider Usenet in general. Again, common sense.

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Of course they have control!, just seems abit of let's bash a popular site because it's set's an example...
And, once again for the hard of understanding, VM are simply complying with a court order to block a specific website.

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Originally Posted by mcmanic View Post
...but don't tell them if your with VM you have free access to what you want via their newsgroup anyway.
And not just VM but via any other ISP. In fact, you can access them independently of any ISP if you really want to. So it's a moot point, really.
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