Comments on: Government Blocks Torrent Site, Citizens Protest https://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:38:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: TorrentValley Raided and Shut Down | CyberLaw Blog /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-512770 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:17:41 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-512770 [...] This is not the first time Bulgarian authorities have gone after a BitTorrent site. In 2006, the administrator of Arenabg.com, the largest BitTorrent tracker in the country, was arrested by the police. The admin was later released due to ‘lack of grounds for his arrest’, but the government ordered an IP-block of the site nevertheless, which led to massive protests. [...]

]]> By: TorrentValley Raided and Shut Down at IDTorrent Blog /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-512680 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:12:51 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-512680 [...] This is not the &#102i&#114st time Bu&#108ga&#114ian autho&#114ities ha&#118e gone a&#102te&#114 a BitTo&#114&#114ent site. In 2006, the administ&#114ato&#114 o&#102 A&#114ena&#98g.com, the &#108a&#114gest BitTo&#114&#114ent t&#114acke&#114 in the count&#114y, was a&#114&#114ested &#98y the po&#108ice. The admin was &#108ate&#114 &#114e&#108e&#97sed due &#116o “la&#99k of &#103rounds for his arres&#116”, bu&#116 &#116he &#103overn&#109en&#116 ordered an &#73&#80-blo&#99k of &#116he si&#116e never&#116heless, whi&#99h led &#116o &#109&#97ssive pro&#116es&#116s. [...]

]]> By: TorrentValley Raided and Shut Down | TorrentFreak /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-512228 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:39:39 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-512228 [...] This is not the first time Bulgarian authorities have gone after a BitTorrent site. In 2006, the administrator of Arenabg.com, the largest BitTorrent tracker in the country, was arrested by the police. The admin was later released due to “lack of grounds for his arrest”, but the government ordered an IP-block of the site nevertheless, which led to massive protests. [...]

]]> By: Basty /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-308760 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:03:17 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-308760 I’m using http://strongvpn.com OpenVPN account to bypass blocked site access. With it encryption my surfing is anonymous and absolutely hidden. Better than always lagged proxies…

]]> By: amstew /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-143819 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:36:07 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-143819 If your isp blocks anything or shapes your downloads you can always use a VPN to make it so that they cant monitor where you go, here’s a site that will set you up with a VPN, there is a setup fee but after that it’s free monthly.

http://www.filesharesmart.com

]]> By: idris3509 /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-73360 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:09:35 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-73360 Anyway it seems that soon the trackers will be online again. If not there is already a group of more than 15000 ArenaBG users ready to start a tracker on a host whos owners will definately not be arrested by GDBOP.

]]> By: The Human BitTorrent Swarm | TorrentFreak /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-73213 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:56:16 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-73213 [...] the Bulgarian government blocked access to some of Bulgaria’s most-loved BitTorrent trackers, the file-sharing community [...]

]]> By: angela /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-71566 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:37:54 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-71566 Today there was a protest and I think it went good… there was attempt for sabotage (the electricity was cut for 2 hours from the beginning). There were about 2000-3000 people and it won’t be the last one we made. Next will be in front of the government!
http://v.foto.radikal.ru/0703/ab/ba3449392c3e.jpg

]]> By: shimshi BGuser /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-71408 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:42:22 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-71408 Ok not we,all Bulgarian users are very interesting from this illegal action. But this is the live in Bulgaria…Our police don`t know that the torrent is not illegal…Yes they(police)say that the action is only for administrators,example Elian Geshev, but not only.The action isfor allusers because the torrent is not illegal and we go today to protest for our torrents site- Zamunda.net and ArrenaBg.com And you can help us if you publish many news for our protest and our protecting action.

]]> By: Journalists Attacked Reporting on BitTorrent Case | TorrentFreak /government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-71070 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:58:47 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/government-blocks-torrent-site-citizens-protest/#comment-71070 [...] later by order of the Sophia Town Court due to “lack of grounds for his arrest”. In our earlier article we briefly touched on the scuffle outside the Court involving security and [...]

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