Comments on: China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites

By: Dude, Where’s My P2P: Torrent Sites Hijacked by China : tinyComb

Dude, Where’s My P2P: Torrent Sites Hijacked by China : tinyComb — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:34:41 +0000

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By: aquatiumfish

aquatiumfish — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:06:36 +0000

All I can say is “Trust China”, Jesus, they want concentrate on stopping breeding.

http://www.aquariumfish.me

By: chairman miaow

chairman miaow — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:46:14 +0000

Mininova blocked again in China or routine maintainence?

By: wokman

wokman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:11:46 +0000

damn, a bunch of FUD. some of you in the US and EU get the fcuk out of your parents basements and take a look around. also, TF get your facts straight, only TPB has been blocked. Mininova, isohunt, etc all work. There’s also a plethora of chinese torrent sites up and alive. even if China cuts itself off, torrents are alive and well over here. Oh, you whiny kids over there, at least we don’t need to worry about the RIAA/MPAA. Still downloading the latest mp3′s mofo.

By: China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites | CyberLaw Blog

China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites | CyberLaw Blog — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:26:07 +0000

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By: daze

daze — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:40:38 +0000

I live in China and have no trouble with minivova. Would you people who have never been there please refrain from making stupid comments about the country. Its not perfect but then neither is any other place

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:36:48 +0000

Im in beijing and starting around the 8th i have been unable to download at more than 2-3 kbps per torrent, it’s rediculous. For the past 2 months i was able to torrent at approx 300 kbps net across all active torrents down stream. Now it’s all gone to shits. Bye bye entourage and the office =(.

By: P

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:22:46 +0000

3 or 4 of the torrent sites I visit daily including private sites were redirected to Baidu.

The same sites including mininova worked fine with a proxy.

By: Populäre Torrent-Webseiten wurden auf chinesische Suchmaschine Baidu umgeleitet | Scene Blog.info

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:16:01 +0000

[...] man schlichtweg auf die “heimische” Suchmaschine Baidu umgeleitet hat. Nach Angaben von TorrentFreak soll die Sperre inzwischen wieder aufgehoben sein und insgesamt etwa zwei Tage gedauert haben. [...]

By: mrgtb

mrgtb — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:56:38 +0000

LOL, so god dam typical of Chinese government. To point Mininova and ThePirateBay.

To a site they can pump their own propaganda at there people. Talk about brain washing!

http://www.aquariumfish.me

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:34:53 +0000

that must have been one heck of a bribe. that’s how things are done there.

By: The Great Geek Manual News » China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites

The Great Geek Manual News » China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:37:55 +0000

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By: 46

46 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:30:44 +0000

wtf do you expect from totalitarian entities?

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:35:31 +0000

China secuestra los portales de BitTorrent [ENG]…

Los sitios de intercambio de archivos nunca habían sido bloqueados. Hasta ahora. VeryCD, destacado buscador de archivos edonkey, recibió advertencias de clausura, que se concretaron en el bloqueo unos días después, a los que se añadieron otros com…

By: The Inquirer ES : China secuestra los portales de BitTorrent

The Inquirer ES : China secuestra los portales de BitTorrent — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:07:39 +0000

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By: China takes over BitTorrent sites : Security Roadmap

China takes over BitTorrent sites : Security Roadmap — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:25:25 +0000

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By: ??????BT?? | IT News RSS

??????BT?? | IT News RSS — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:54:17 +0000

[...] ?????????????????????????????????????BT???P2P?????????????????????????VeryCD???????????????????BT??Mininova(???????)?isoHunt?????????The Pirate Bay???????????????????????????????? [...]

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Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:49:32 +0000

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By: ArrrRRRrrr

ArrrRRRrrr — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:56:43 +0000

to alongneckedpony who stated:

“Piracy is wrong no matter what you think. That being said, I’m gonna go out and buy some cds to support my favorite artists!”

wrong… you are going to buy some cds to support your favourite recording studios… the artists will get less than a dollar from those sales, unless of course your favourite artists are independants and sell their content directly.

By: John John

John John — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:06:43 +0000

I’m sorry but The Pirate Bay is NOT accessible from Shanghai since at least 6 months.

Cheers

By: ??

?? — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:15:08 +0000

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By: dwpbike

dwpbike — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:33:36 +0000

yugo #1. why were you wasting your time here?

By: Roze

Roze — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:30:51 +0000

Funny story, I was talking to this mother earlier today whose daughter had been viciously raped and tortured. Naturally I tried to comfort her by pointing out that well, it could have been worse, she could have been sued by the copyright lobby for a couple thousand dollars but this mother was so INTELLECTUALLY INFERIOR that she found no comfort in that at all and started screaming and crying like a obnoxious baboon.

It depresses me sometimes, how dumb people can be…

Roze
http://www.10ch.org/

By: ??????BT?? | ??IT??

??????BT?? | ??IT?? — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:40:35 +0000

[...] ????:Solidot ?????????????????????????????????????BT???P2P?????????????????????????VeryCD???????????????????BT??Mininova(???????)?isoHunt?????????The Pirate Bay???????????????????????????????? [...]

By: Roze

Roze — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:15:43 +0000

correction – it’s assured that you suffer from mental retardation if you don’t understand my posts.

Roze

By: Roze

Roze — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:47:18 +0000

Brothers, we will win this war. We will not stop until all the rapists and murderers have been freed from all the world’s prisons and the MPAA/RIAA copyright lobby have taken their place behind bars.

My intelligence is vast. Like the sea. And not just one sea but all the seas combined…including the rumored underground ones on Europa.

The MPAA is solely responsible for global warming. This is not debatable so don’t even try.

The RIAA devoloped AIDS to kill off the poor people that can’t afford their products. This is not debatable so don’t even try.

I am the smartest person here. If you don’t understand my posts then I’m sorry to inform you, it’s likely that you suffer from some sort of learning disability or mental retardation.

Roze
http://www.10ch.org/

By: Roze

Roze — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:17:32 +0000

@85
The Pirate Bay may not be the fastest tracker, but they do provide one important function: political support and mobilization. In addition, it allows anybody to use it, so it has the capability for newcomers to BitTorrent to easily jump in.

Roze

By: Roze

Roze — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:41:22 +0000

Great … 25,000,000 crappy peers at the worlds slowest, crappiest, shittiest public tracker (it seriously eats dogs balls). Please dont show your face around here again you ugly muppet.

Roze

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:32:38 +0000

speaking of piratebay, they are currently @ 24.111.604 peers =) brb joining for one more :) guess they’ll hit their 25m target way before christmas

By: ??????BT?? ? NoNews.com.cn

??????BT?? ? NoNews.com.cn — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:08:47 +0000

[...] ?????????????????????????????????????BT???P2P?????????????????????????VeryCD? ??????????????????BT??Mininova(???????)?isoHunt?????????The Pirate Bay???????????????????????????????????????????????????????7??????Mininova??????Niek????????????????“??????????????YouTube?????????” [...]

By: ??????BT?? @ IT-BJENET

??????BT?? @ IT-BJENET — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:27:09 +0000

[...] ?????????????????????????????????????BT???P2P?????????????????????????VeryCD???????????????????BT??Mininova(???????)?isoHunt?????????The Pirate Bay???????????????????????????????? [...]

By: Stephen Conroy

Stephen Conroy — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:18:17 +0000

Shut up you little sh*t, Labour rulez OK!!

By: Roze

Roze — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:17:21 +0000

Also if the evil, Nazi fascists known as the RIAA/MPAA didn’t sue people we wouldn’t be in this economic mess we are in ATM. It’s the evil, scumbag artists that expect to – I know, it’s so evil – get paid to make creations – that have pushed the economy to the breaking point and now over the edge. I predicted it quite a while ago, read some of my postings from 6 months ago and that is patently abvious to anyone. Even if they’re just 1/4 as intelligent as I am.

Artists also eat valuable food. If they starved themselves poor people all over the world would have full stomaches. Shame on those evil Nazi scum.

Culture should be free to anybody to download. If the billion people in the world who are starving downloaded their culture the rich elites would build one less swimming pool at their penthouse. As well those same people, by virtue of free downloaded culture, would have food to eat aplenty, because culture begats intelligence and intelligence leads to food. It should be a world priority to get these people culture so theyre consciousness can be healed an dfill their stomaches.

I know I have a lot of revolutionary ideas which only someone like me could come up with, but I am certain that implementing them will free the world from poverty and provide a utopia the likes of which has never been seen before. I’m also certainm that the MPAA delights in 1 billion people not being able to buy their crap and they also like world poverty.

Roze
http://www.10ch.org/

By: mike-s

mike-s — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:13:52 +0000

#12, #18.
China may be loaded with communism & censorship. But unfortunately that is to be expected. I’m not looking forward to when the government try’s to roll out their half arsed censorship of the net measures (look up “Steven Conroy internet censorship” in a search engine to see what i’m on about). Were not communists, but we’re certainly the whipping boy for any f*#kers that decide to try and put hairbrained ideas into law.

Industrial Relation & centrelink reform anyone?

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:38:04 +0000

I recently tried to visit all those sites using the China Channel firefox addon, which makes me go through a proxy in china, and I found this to be extremely false, or at least I was able to get to any of those sites. So Unless that’s just for major cities, it’s not affecting all areas of china, at least where these proxies are, which are in china.

By: Roze

Roze — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:22:47 +0000

Artists should not make money. They should live in squalor and filth, awash in their own feces and torment. That is the point of being an artist. In fact, i’m pretty sure the word ‘artist” is derived from Ortho-Greek word “artestia” meaning “starvation”.

Creators who want to make money are whores and worse than Nazis.

Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Columbine… none of it compares to the MPAA/RIAA suing people. Not even close.

This is fact and by the way, I am the sole allotter of official facts. If you think you know something to be factual, check with me first and I’ll tell you if it is or not. I am very intelligent.

Very.

Roze
http://www.10ch.org/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:18:24 +0000

alright calm down, honkies.

piracy is for poor people

sweden is shit country, nobody cares about honkies in sweden

they are simply to poor, thats why its piracy in sweden and piratebay

Rozy
http://5chan.ru

By: LivingInChina

LivingInChina — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:16:42 +0000

@74

Most of the blocks don’t work on IP only but on the DNS request the simply edit the DNS response to direct you to a different IP within china that simply doesn’t respond one of the side effects of this is that it often blocks refering domain as well for a short amount of time, or blocks any dns request from your ip for a bit. The pirate bay is blocked including all sub domains and several of their alternate addresses as well.

But to answer your question the trackers were also down DHT is a life saver here as is torrentz.com giving you a list of alt trackers.

By: iptorrents/torrentleech

iptorrents/torrentleech — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:12:59 +0000

whatever!!! now what should i download???

By: Roze

Roze — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:56:44 +0000

Of course, the question is whether the IP address or merely the domain name was blocked, and whether the corresponding trackers were blocked as well. Which, now?

Roze

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:12:12 +0000

@alongneckedpony:
if you’re buying those cd’s at a shop you aren’t supporting that artist. the only way that artist sees more than a percent of that sale is if you go to their shows and buy their cd’s and merch directly from them at the show

By: Thijs (Shenzhen)

Thijs (Shenzhen) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:08:18 +0000

I’m in China and have had no problems visiting mininova at all. It could be that the measures were limited to some areas of China though.

By: LivingInChina

LivingInChina — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:04:22 +0000

@56

I’m pretty sure the MPAA doesn’t ever laugh at things happen in China. It is actually hard to buy real CD or DVD’s here (at least where I am downtown shanghai for instance is different).

WB and Paramout both sell discount DVD’s here to try and combat the problem the work out to approx US$3 each (a copy dvd is about .70c). The only real reason to ever think about buying them is the chinese subtitles are actually correct, often you can buy a copy of it before the actual dvd release. Which is quite common DVD’s with global release, copies are almost always able to be purchased a week before the actual release.

By: LivingInchina

LivingInchina — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:55:48 +0000

a) this is the frst time that these sites have been re directed (but re directs are not uncommon google at one point redirected to Baidu.

b) Not the first time mininova has been block it was blocked for about 4 months the end of last year and begining of this year

c) Pirate bay is still blocked where I am and has been block for aprox 9 months now. This includes the tracker.

d) Stragnely engough the blocks do not always affect the whole of China.

e) From what my students told me the redirect was removed after attacks started on baidu on a scale massive enough to cause downtime to the main site (DDOS atacks in china are mind boggling in scale as a huge amount of compramised computers are in china and internal communications are extremely fast even when I still only had a 2mb plan inside china I could get up to 6mb so long as i was downloading from chinese sources)

By: jason

jason — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:49:46 +0000

Im in china, the piratebay has been blocked for a few months now, not a redirect, but cant even get there, tis really annoying

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:16:52 +0000

So a service provider (China Unicom) becomes China. If Verizon or Sprint or Comcast blocked P2P websites, we should blame it on the evil United States.

By: annoyance

annoyance — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:39:37 +0000

commie basterds.

By: phreak

phreak — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:39:22 +0000

The concept of intellectual property is an insult to the freedom of our minds.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:12:19 +0000

Only the pirate bay is blocked.Mininova and isohunt are accessible.

By: Sausages

Sausages — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:16:43 +0000

Fascinating story, but how does this affect me? Not in the slighest, that’s how.

A dictatorship censoring content??? Never!!