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British Telecom became the final broadband provider in the U.K. to block customer access to the The Pirate Bay following a court order forcing the move in April. From around 12 midday BST on Tuesday, more than six million BT customers were faced with a “site blocked” message when trying to access the Magnet-link sharing site. Some users were surprised to find that Web addresses and IP addresses that still worked for other broadband providers still threw up a blocked message. It later transpired that BT had actively gone above and beyond in blocking access to the site from what the court order dictated.BT also cut off access to number of proxy websites used to bypass the block, but many new proxies are being added each day. But it took literally minutes for customers to circumvent the block, partially thanks to a server IP address change by the site’s operators. In April, five of the largest U.K. broadband providers — Virgin Media, Everything Everywhere, Sky, O2 and Be, and TalkTalk — were told to impose server-level blocks to prevent their collective 13 million customers access to The Pirate Bay. BT was left out of the initial court order to grant the telcoms giant extra time to “consider its position.” Rumours suggestedthe telecommunications giant could enter into a deal with the British Phonographic Industry, the British record industry’s trade association, which brought the case to the High Court in London in the first place. The total figure of blocked users represents roughly one-third of the U.K.’s population, and almost the entire U.K.’s broadband-using customer base. According to TorrentFreak, an “immediate response” by the Swedish-based site was to enable two new IP addresses — .82 and .83 — within minutes of the BT block coming into effect. A site insider said they can “continue adding new addresses for years.” Without another judicial intervention, there’s little that can be done about it. And so the cat-and-mouse game continues. Proxy websites are in high demand following the court order. The U.K.’s Pirate Party operates the most popular proxy, which allows users to access The Pirate Bay through a different server, and is now among the top 600 most visited websites in the United Kingdom. The Pirate Bay switched to a Swedish.se top-level domainearlier this year, with the site’s founders claiming the Web address would no longer be susceptible to U.S. laws, unlike the .org top-level domain. .SE senior legal counsel Elisabeth Ekstrand said in a company blog post that the domain name registrar has “not takenany actions following the ruling against TPB since we do not consider ourselves obligated to do so,” but warned it has always had “the right to take action based on a ruling against us pertaining to a specific domain name.” ZDNet’s Liam Tung has more. BT declined to comment when approached by ZDNet. Image credit: Luke Williams/Twitter; used with permission. Related: CNET: ‘Censorship creep’: Pirate Bay block will affect one-third of U.K. U.K. to announce website blocking proposals “imminently” ZDNet: Don’t look to us to block the Pirate Bay, says its .se domain firm Goodbye, Pirate Bay: O2 forced to block access UK’s anti-piracy law delayed: ‘Three-strike’ warnings on hold Queen’s speech unveils UK’s Web, email monitoring plan ZDNet UK: Pirate Bay condemns Virgin Media hack Court bans Dutch party from helping Pirate Bay Hackers retaliate as Dutch ISPs told to block Pirate Bay. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Sinamay Ladies Hats , Sinamay Bags Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Organza Hat.
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