UK ISPs Unintentionally Block Torrent Sites

Earlier this week the UK government published the Digital Britain report where they introduced a whole range of anti-piracy measures. They will first try to lower the piracy rate by sending out warnings to those who get caught, but if this fails users’ access to “file-sharing” sites may eventually be blocked. This might have been in the back of the minds of the Be Broadband users who found out that a variety of torrent sites including The Pirate Bay, Mininova and Torrentz were no longer accessible.

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UK ISPs Unintentionally Block Torrent Sites

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Thursday, June 18th, 2009 P2P News

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