[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Qtx

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.

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.