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ThePirateBay to be blocked in Australia!
The Federal Court has ordered internet companies to block five copyright-infringing websites, including torrent website The Pirate Bay.
Internet companies now have 15 business days to implement the blocks.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-15/federal-court-orders-pirate-bay-blocked-in-australia/8116912
Thoughts?
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It's just a DNS record on the ISPs server. Most of the ISPs haven't even been told officially what's happening.
You mean it's simply only blocked on their resolvers and no DPI/hijack?
Use dnscrypt, if you too lazy run dnscrypt on all your devices simply put dnscrypt on your router.
Create a browser plugin that 'unblocks' requests to their host name... quids in $$$$.
Pretty much. The ISPs only get $50+GST per block request so they aren't going to go to great lengths to do anything else.
Just use the https:// version
or the TOR version
Because SURELY Australia is the first ever country to introduce Internet censorship, and there aren't dozens of plugins like that out there already.
I highly doubt they'll do anything technical, probably just a straight DNS block and they'll leave it at that..
Easy to bypass anyway.
Agreed. They will just submit a block just to get them over the line.
Yep, the government over here doesn't seem to care all that much about pirating anyway... It'll somewhat alleviate the pressure from the copyright holders.
It actually needs to redirected to a site mutually agreed to by the ISP and the requesting party. I've put a link below to the ruling for those interested.
https://www.comcourts.gov.au/file/Federal/P/NSD241/2016/3748942/event/28763079/document/883279
And how many people use 8.8.8.8 instead of their ISP DNS? Actually, I suspect some ISPs are using that as well.
Damn, I haven't used TPB since it was blocked in the UK
Oh wait, yes I have, and so has everybody else....
Redirected sure, it's up to the ISP to determine the best way to do that, at least that's what I read..
Censor Australia.
Actually dnscrypt doesn't encrypt DNS traffic (it validates the fact that the request hasn't been changed from the DNS server to you) but yeah any uncensored dnscrypt server would work to resolve, but no better than Google/Yandex/HE/Whatever DNS as it doesn't seem like they'd go that far as to manipulate DNS traffic.
If they block it on their DNS servers, just change your DNS to OpenDNS/Google/Whatever, problem solved.
Or you can use my DNS, with the addition of advertisements getting blocked
Ho.ho. Funny thing. In Hungary ncore.cc has the biggest torrent site with more then half million member. Site hosted on OVH servers..
Just seen that some guys decided to open a KAT clone (katcr.co) apparently the mods from the old site - hosted by online.net ... meh
Yeah, that's how it started in Russia.
See ya in a few years in VPN threads.
In my country ISP has already override all my DNS traffic, no matter what DNS i used their warning site is always appear when accessing censored sites, dnscrypt is the only way i can bypass the dns resolver without sacrifice the latency, and i think they are afraid to doing ban IPs cause almost censored sites has many IPs and sometimes it is changed.
@brian777 interesting to hear. Do all dnscrypt servers work well in your area or are some censored?
In my ISP yes all porn and warez sites that was blocked before got accessible without problem, it's also give me loading and error message when tried activating dnscrypt while the state is offline, so i think it's really encrypting the DNS traffic.
It doesn't. But the traffic might look different enough so that the filter of your ISP doesn't block it (?)
(from https://dnscrypt.org )
Time to move to Vanuatu or Tonga..:)
I wouldn't complain.
Hello Joodle,
Im using your DNS srv, and its really fast and cool! If there were 2 ips, wouldnt be better?
Also, care to share your setup? thanks and keep up the good work!
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https ain't gonna help with dns poisoning.