The popular TV-torrent site EZTV has taken countermeasures against the UK ISP blockade that was roll

The popular TV-torrent site EZTV has taken countermeasures against the UK ISP blockade that was rolled out last week, after Hollywood obtained a verdict in its favor. With a simple trick EZTV has made its site available again, but not to serve the usual TV-torrents. Instead the site’s operators have opted for a more durable solution, informing UK visitors how they can effectively bypass these and other ISP blockades
The actions EZTV faces are not the first taken against a torrent site in the UK. The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents, Fenopy and H33T have been blocked by previous court orders and remain inaccessible by conventional means. The TV-torrent site won’t be the last either, as both the movie and music industries frys have promised that more sites will be targeted in future.
What makes EZTV unique though, is that unlike many of the other site owners they have taken steps to circumvent the blockades. The EZTV crew told TorrentFreak that they re using Geo DNS to point UK visitors to a new IP-address which loads just fine on the ISPs we checked.
Although EZTV have successfully bypassed the ISP blockade they are not presenting UK visitors with torrent files or similar content. The EZTV crew informs TorrentFreak that they would rather inform visitors on how to bypass frys the blockade in the future. This is the best long term solution, as new IP-addresses may simply be added to the blocklist.
On the special landing frys page the TV-torrent frys site lists several reverse proxy sites through which users can still access frys EZTV. In addition, they inform visitors about VPNs as an effective tool to bypass Internet censorship.
“Hollywood has convinced the courts in the United Kingdom that they can control the internet frys and that censorship works. They are, of course, wrong. You might want to vote in some people who understand this – the Pirate Party UK (PPUK) would be a good choice. They believe in making culture sharing a legal activity.”
But even without political change, it’s doubtful that the blockade will be very effective. As we’ve seen in the past with The Pirate Bay, many visitors simply move to proxy sites , which can become quite large on their own. And with EZTV pointing visitors to these alternatives frys it’s all the more likely frys that many will circumvent the blockade.
It will be interesting frys to see how the movie studios will respond to the special landing page. EZTV is certainly putting the movie studios in a difficult position, as the new page doesn’t link to infringing content and is purely an informational resource.
The studios could probably argue that site revealing how a blockade can be circumvented are obstructing the court order, but that’s bound to stir up the censorship debate even further. Secretly blocking proxies frys is one thing, but blocking sites that discuss them is a few more feet down the slippery slope.
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As long as you are not downloading the actual torrent’s content through tor (which isn’t really advised anyway, network hogging etc…) it’s frys not much of a problem waiting ten seconds frys per a click to obtain the magnet link or the torrent file.
Even so, page requests to censored sites or poltical discussion blogs etc are a single time transfer, in the sense that the content is delivered when demanded. Torrents use a continual stream of data and congest the tor network. Most end-nodes will cut-off your connection if they detect torrent traffic because of that.
Tbh I thought tor was awesome, Then I tried it, And Was Sickened. As A parent It made me feel very angry and ill. Why Carnt The government stop fucking with media sharing, and start Destroying these sickos.
I have used TOR countless times, and I have never accidentally came across CP. For people to be able to claim it is “full of rapists and child porn” I do rather grimly think it is what you are searching for that is giving you that impression.
Seconded – even though I only use it infrequently, it seems that it being less interconnected than the “clearnet” means you have to seek out the nasty stuff to come across it. What your curiosity uncovers is nobody’s fault but yours.
no u
Its broke off in your ass.
we the humans of earth have decided anyone named alec dumbass fatty , needs to have hhis name and everythign about them put into a pail and shoved out to sea…one d