Bit Torrent

[#1]

Is PN restricting access to torrent sites, asking for a friend 😇

[#2]

Not so far as I'm aware, so long as they are legit.

[#3]

AFAIR the larger ISPs in the UK restrict access to certain BitTorrent sites which were named in court orders several years ago.

You can access them via a VPN to download the small .torrent file, then once you have that, you can switch the VPN off if you're using a free one which is slow or has limited usage, and then carry on to download the main files using your normal connection.

You may find some blocked ones which you can access by changing your DNS IP addresses.

So a friend of mine tells me. 

[#4]

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This topic has been moved from Broadband to Everything Else

[#5]

Exactly what I do for yifi, use mobile either Vodafone or giffgaff to download magnet then swith to WiFi for the rest.
My pirate bay isn't blocked though, just yts?

[#6]

My friend was accessing them a couple of days ago no problems at all, all he gets now is a privacy page if he says access site it’s just a blank screen, hopefully someone has some ideas

[#7]

Which site?

[#8]

PB and EZTV

[#9]

If PB = Pirate Bay, they are banned under a court order, and ISPs are legally required to block them. No idea what ESTV is.

BTW Do you mean 'Piracy' rather than 'Privacy'?

[#10]

EZTV is on the list of blocked sites.

Full list here.

[#11]

Cheers, @Browni , so @jamsey66 's 'friend' is trying to access legally blocked content.

[#12]

My PB works fine?
https://thepiratebay.org/index.html

[#13]

Weirdly, I can get to the main page, which I find strange as I understand they re blocked by court order, but I wonder if it is because my ISP is not named in the order? I'm going no further than the 'Home' page, though.

[#14]

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@Rgmanby wrote:
My PB works fine?
https://thepiratebay.org/index.html

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Likewise.

[#15]

It's only illegal if you download copyrighted material.
There are lots of bands, devs and amateur film makers who upload their stuff there for free, like github etc, just be careful you only download non copyrighted material.