Comments on: Major Romanian ISP Blocks BitTorrent Site

By: DJAx3L

DJAx3L — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:47:29 +0000

Bravo baietilor ca nu au stat in inchisoare si isi continua treaba. Bafta torrentbits!

By: treX

treX — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:54:50 +0000

Nothing strange, my fav tracker bans users from Romtelecom networks because of their low speed. On RDS we have 50/30 Mbs and people with Romtelecom just can’t keep up with us and can’t do ratio.

By: marius

marius — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:39:33 +0000

It’s not blocked.

Torrentbits staff is stupid and hosts their server(s) in places that often lack proper routing or have peering that’s enabled and disabled whenever someone feels like it.

UPC as far as I know never blocked any site, especially torrent sites.

By: Liviu

Liviu — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:20:55 +0000

It was a very good tracker romanian users. i managed to download with 10 MB/s max from them. It’s a shame users from UPC cannot login. Im from another provider and i don’t have this problem.

By: HeHeHe

HeHeHe — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:25:47 +0000

Aahh TorrentBits .. admins are banning users on H&R without first warning them.. I hope they die soon :-)

By: solar

solar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:50:15 +0000

filtering at ISP level is always bad

By: because

because — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:38:23 +0000

it is because it is another ISP that host it “iLink” and UPC is loosing ground.

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UPC Romania blokkeert toegang tot Torrentbits.ro | ISPam.nl — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:08:24 +0000

[...] ISP’s van Roemenië heeft één van de bekendste Roemeense BitTorrent trackers Torrentbits.ro geblokkeerd. Klanten van UPC Romania die naar de website surfen krijgen een melding dat de website (domeinnaam) [...]

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By: dPsychc

dPsychc — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:17:37 +0000

I’m not Romanian but then fuck UPC up

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By: ISP romeno impede acesso a tracker de BitTorrent de outro ISP | Remixtures

ISP romeno impede acesso a tracker de BitTorrent de outro ISP | Remixtures — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:34:19 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:23:34 +0000

For a while there I thought that **AA bullcrap started happening in our country too. Was really worried there for a bit.

Oh, and to the jackasses: Romania isn’t poor, it’s doing quite fine though most of the people inside could use a radical attitude adjustment.

By: well

well — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:36:10 +0000

the quality of upc,isn’t that bad it dependends on what network your connection is, on the upc newtwork on the old astral network that was bought by upc,withouth investing anything in it,hopes it will get better cause they will(are) lose(ing) lots of consumers.

By: Samuel Jackson

Samuel Jackson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:53:17 +0000

Wow how sad, another ISP caves to pressure from four letter agencies. Sad indeed.

Jiff
http://www.anonymity.at.tc

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:44:12 +0000

torrentbits.ro blowed anyway..

i’d like to know more about the nodes upgrade in Germany.

i have a connection from iLink and i get really bad pings all over Europe (>150ms). can’t play anything outside of RO atm :/

i don’t wanna call customer support because they’re only dumb bimbos asking me if the cable is plugged or other stupid shit. it would take a lot of effort to explain how the trace routing is crappin’ out after the 5th hop

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By: TorrentPirate101

TorrentPirate101 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:09:47 +0000

This is fucking bullshit, we pay good money to our ISP to surf the damn Internet so it should be up to us to filtrate whatever site we want. It should be upp to the consumer and not to the ISP.

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:05:38 +0000

Haha, TF, where were you when major romanian isp, I-Link, owner of torrentbits.ro tracker (yes, this tracker is owned by I-Link romanian ISP) filtered abusively without any reason what so ever, some other romanian tracker?

That was a nice story…when you were asking support from their staff, the simple answer was to forget the other tracker and just use torrentbits.ro ..

nice story, eh ?

By: LOL

LOL — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:51:38 +0000

i have upc and im romanian and i CAN access that site….

By: dude

dude — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:46:58 +0000

Another failed TorrentFreak story

By: Rubbeh

Rubbeh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:35:15 +0000

Romania is not a poor country anymore. It was poor 10 years ago but things have changed. You know the country has been communist since 1989 so it took time to get along to the other countries in economical terms. The internet prices are low because internet is not a rare thing to have there. Anyone has a fast internet connection in Romania because, believe it or not, it was one of the fastest growing internet market in europe. TV is not anymore the main focus for anyone. Just to put things straight: UPC is the worst ISP in Romania. They have good prices for bad services. If you compare their prices with their competition, you’ll think they are pretty high for what they’re offering.

By: bart

bart — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:27:48 +0000

i’m a UPC internet costumer from Ro and their internet service was always fine. i use it 24/7 whitout limitations or problems.

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:59:45 +0000

As i know the TBS staff, they banned another isp from Romania (clicknet) so i wouldn’t be surprised if they also banned UPC. It’s either this way (probability of 55%) or UPC really did block the access to torrentbits.

By: violetblood

violetblood — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:12:36 +0000

UPC was also the WORST isp in our Country. They have great cable tv but the net is just.. horrible

By: NEo

NEo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:51:04 +0000

RDS > UPC

By: UPC user

UPC user — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:37:38 +0000

Inaccurate.

I did some digging through some romanian blogs and this is not true. It turns out Torrentbits.ro’s ISP routes the traffic through Germany instead of taking a more shorter route. There have been upgrades done to the nodes causing this downtime (for some people).

to 32, yeah, I might have exaggerated with that one.

By: to 31

to 31 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:16:35 +0000

@31
there is the oponent of upc that is rds, that has 10 bucks for a land phone and inet connection,trust me the costs of maintaing a newtwork in Romania are quite low,because the country is poor,And upc has other services that top up the profit chain that is the tv sector,all revenues or concentrated on the tv provider sector of the company.

By: UPC user

UPC user — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:38:27 +0000

I’m on UPC and the site loads fine.

In my opinion this is just a connectivity issue between two different ISPs. This in NOT unprecedented.
Some background info: the internet offered by UPC is one of the cheapest in the country: 10 euros for a 10/1 mbit connection or 20 euros for 20/2 both with unlimited traffic. At that price something will go wrong sooner or later; there’s not a lot of profit. You just can’t have that 99.9 % uptime.

By: meh

meh — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:15:08 +0000

just get http://www.opendns.org

By: sprint

sprint — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:10:48 +0000

aaa and i forgot to say that UPC has no peers with no provider and neither I-link has that’s why sometimes when in Frankfurt (yes you read it well – this is the point where the routes of the two providers meet) are made some changes those two providers clients can’t access the resources found in the other network.And less to say that UPC internet access sucks sometimes (sucks less then I-link) and this type of accident happens.

By: sprint

sprint — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:02:56 +0000

First that tracker belongs to the ISP named I-Link a provider with an obscure management and less to say that the internet connection via I-Link sucks / blows (or both).That crappy management that i was mentioning before filters the access to the resources maintained by them randomly without any reason today you can access the resources from I-link tomorrow you can’t.When a provider is ALLOWED by I-link to acces the resources placed in the data center owned by them but the clients from that provider can not connect to them the tsunami of lies starts and I-link starts accusing that provider of filtering.Less to say that UPC is big company providing triplay (internet, phone, tv cable) and belive me when i say that they have bigger problems and they don’t give a shit about filtering bitorrent DC++ whatsoever you name it.So that complaint about UPC filtering the access to TB is nothing but a shity lie.

By: JPass

JPass — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:17:07 +0000

I`m on UPC and it`s working now !

By: Pixelated

Pixelated — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:16:00 +0000

More pressure from the fascist government here in the us. Money and overreaching copyright law over human creativity.

By: Dafin

Dafin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:15:38 +0000

It was not blocked from the UPC.Nothing legal or unlegal.Just an unfortunate situation.Since this morning should be working.Happy sharing !

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By: Madcotto

Madcotto — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:04:05 +0000

we should care about all trackers because the small ones will go first they easy targets.

have your say
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By: ...

... — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:46:50 +0000

I cant stand people who say.. OH ITS A CRAPPY SITE WHO CARES..

Your gonna F*cking care when they target TPB, Mininova, btmon.. ect ect..

So stfu up about who cares, end this now while we still have a chance.

By: Flo

Flo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:08:31 +0000

-UPC is not the largest ISP
-the tracker belongs to a competing ISP so that’s the main reason of the block, not some kind of legal issue
-there are plenty of well-known RO trackers, but just like there are people in the world that still use Internet Explorer, there are people that use DC++.

By: bart

bart — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:55:57 +0000

the site looks fine at the moment, but as far as i know there aren’t popular romanian trackers (althou there were attempts); most romanian are idiots and spend their time on DC++ crap.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:50:58 +0000

I can’t, still blocked here. Maybe they are slowly letting people log in city by city.

By: ahhh

ahhh — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:46:19 +0000

I don’t know how but I can log in to the site from this isp.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:41:50 +0000

romania is a poor country

By: greylion

greylion — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:37:06 +0000

Like others have pointed out:
If it’s only a DNS block, either use a different DNS server, or put torrentbits.ro and the IP number 86.55.19.90 in your ‘hosts’ file.

http://86.55.19.90/ should also get you there, if it’s only DNS that’s blocked, but might not work for anything but the front page because the site expects the browser to resolve torrentbits.ro to the same address, which it won’t as long as none of the two firstmentioned work-arounds are implemented.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:33:11 +0000

torrents is for j3ws!

eLEee

By: hrmmmmmm

hrmmmmmm — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:12:47 +0000

just do business with neighboring country for internet

btw bit torrent is not the only way to transfer files

/me walks to border, hands buddy ….

By: asdf

asdf — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:56:19 +0000

“UPC has around 1 million customers”

No one said anything about internet subscribers, learn to read… you must be a blogger.

By: Coios

Coios — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:45:14 +0000

UPC does not have 1 milion internet subscribers in Romania, maybe 100k.

By: RO

RO — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:32:59 +0000

I’m a Romanian UPC customer, and it’s true I couldn’t access that tracker for about 3 days, but since this morning it’s working. I’ve spoken to other UPC customers in other parts of the country and for the filter seems to be still on… so who knows maybe they are removing the filter.

By: Roze

Roze — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:28:20 +0000

@7
It is better to focus on the legal aspect of file-sharing as a while, rather than on this specific tracker and its merits. What is more important about this is not just the immediate consequences of this event, but the implications to file-sharing as a whole.

Roze