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> piracy website DNS entries removed I admit I hardly visit pirate sites, but I didn't even notice that happen. I just checked and the Pirate Bay is still avai

• Bnshsysjab 7y ago
  Tpb is definitely blocked, I didn’t notice for ages but turns out I was always overriding my ISP DNS and using google dns which for some reason doesn’t block it, I’ve since moved to cloudflare who are in the same boat.
• yesenadam 7y ago
  e.g. 1337x.to, limetorrents.cc and torrentking.eu bring up an "access blocked" page. "Access to this site has been blocked by an order of the Federal Court of Australia" etc. https://thepiratebay.org https://thepiratebay.org is working fine for me today, although I'm sure that address hadn't worked for a while until very recently, and it wasn't the same sort of blocking as those above. I have a new computer. On my old one I changed to Google DNS when a lot of torrent sites were being blocked a few years ago, and suddenly they all worked again. Kind of silly saying access is blocked when changing one number on the computer unblocks them all.
  • hnick 7y ago
    Those 3 all work for me (well the 3rd one gives a Cloudflare error at https://torrentrex.com/ https://torrentrex.com/, not a DNS black hole). I am based in Sydney with my ISP's own DNS (Aussie BB).
    • Bnshsysjab 7y ago
      I think I read somewhere that smaller ISPs aren’t required to implement the restrictions, Presumably they might choose to not manage their own dns servers thus significant overhead. but I could be wrong.