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UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies

TorrentFreak- Several UK Internet providers have quietly added a list of new sites to their secretive anti-piracy blocklists. Following in the footsteps of Sky, the first ISP to initiate a proxy blockade, Virgin, BT and several other providers now restrict access to several torrent site proxies. The surprise isn’t really that proxies have been added to the blocklist, but that the music industry and ISPs are failing to disclose which sites are being banned.

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Settler3964d ago

I wonder if this will ever be extended to VPN's

Yi-Long3963d ago

... people will just go back to those old days of 'trading' with 'that neighbour' or 'that classmate', probably spending money for a copied file.

... and when people start paying eachother again for copied entertainment, that money goes out of their budget, meaning that's less money to spend on legal entertainment.

Pretty much every study shows that 'piracy' actually INCREASES sales, and that 'pirates' spend more on their legal entertainment, than those people who don't.

You have to wonder why the industries are still so intent on fighting this so-called 'problem', when in reality it isn't a real problem at all. Quite the opposite.

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Twitter Blue problems? How to sign up for verification despite error messages

Signing up for the new Twitter Blue has caused problems for some folks. The Shortcut details the roadblocks you may hit trying to sign up and how to get around them.

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EvilCackle493d ago (Edited 493d ago )

Good thing I signed up at launch so people know I'm the real evilcackle

CurrentDigital493d ago

Huge loss for those who don't know where else to spend their surplus $8 a month

SwiderMan492d ago

Still haven't been approved for Twitter Blue :/

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Thousands of top websites collect your data in real-time as you type

Websites are harvesting our data even before we

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The days of remaining anonymous on the internet are coming to an end

Regulations are beginning to require users to verify their identification online.

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