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Pirate Bay now, what next?

Pirate Bay to be blocked in the UKI’ve just been on the Pirate Bay website. It looks decidedly dodgy. Ads for pornography and flashing boxes inviting you to “fix it now”. Not been on it before. Thought I’d do so before the court order kicks in.

Today a court told the biggest consumer ISPs to block access for their customers to the Pirate Bay website. Most ISPs are not affected by the order but now most consumers in the UK wanting to access the “services” provided by Pirate Bay will have to do so using encrypted paths provided by proxy servers or by accessing a mirror of the Pirate Bay site.

There is a twitter account specifically set up to provide updates of where you can find mirrors. They don’t