Has sky banned me from visiting certain sites?

[xGreggzy]

I wouldn't be suprised if Sky has stopped me visiting this site, But I wouldn't like to ring them up and ask because of obvious reasons when you know the name of the site ( TPB ).
I can access the site via a proxy server but if I just try and connect to the site I get the message
'Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to 194.71.107.15' in google chrome and in Internet Explorer the page just doesn't load. Any ideas?

[Scubbie]

Yep - TPB has now been officially blocked, as of 3pm today.

Take a look at a couple of recent threads on the topic:

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/gener...urt-rules.html

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/p2p-f...irate-bay.html

[amalkin93]

Hi there,

The goverment are having a crackdown on Pirate Bay and are making most ISPs block it:
More here: BBC News - The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules
Specifically about Sky here: BBC News - Sky blocks access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site

They have blocked it from all Sky users, although I hate piracy myself so I cant really disagree with it!

[fluke]

Funny really, 2 mins and got round the block.

But private is the way forward.

[dankargo]

.SE > .EE

problem solved

[NewsreadeR]

Just to explain before anyone says that we are censoring URLs for the TPB - We are not, we are just removing them, as the court have given a court order to some ISPs that that site is to be blocked. Therefore we have no intention of providing or allowing links to mirror sites etc as that is in essence going against against the court order, indirectly.

[NilSatisOptimum]

Indeed i would hope most would understand this sites posistion. Anyways SKY have complied with the court order and nothing more

[BritBrat]

Whats the point?

Easy to get around block and I don't normally use TPB or torrents but it took me 2 mins to access the site.

Just to explain before anyone says that we are censoring URLs for the TPB - We are not, we are just removing them, as the court have given a court order to some ISPs that that site is to be blocked. Therefore we have no intention of providing or allowing links to mirror sites etc as that is in essence going against against the court order, indirectly.

Quite right law is the law even if the law is an (you know the last part)

[Scubbie]

The simple truth is that if anyone wants to find the answers, then a quick search using Google will locate the information.

However as Jed has said, we can't post the actual links.

Besdies, if things get fun and Sky and the other ISPs block the new addresses, then I would suggest that you bookmark the sources you find as I have a feeling that they will be updated periodically.

[NilSatisOptimum]

whac-a-mole time.