Here’s a story you don’t read very often.
Most of you probably are aware of those handy blocklists that block IP-ranges of anti-piracy organizations. Well, TorrentFreak is now proudly listed on one of them, IpfilterX.
IpfilterX users who attempt to access our site today are blocked, because we are “LameFreak”.
Why you might ask? Well here’s the story.
A while ago someone from IpfilterX contacted us to ask if we could help them with their donation drive. We kindly explained that we could not honor the request. Not because we don’t want to support them, but because we feel that TorrentFreak is not the best outlet for their message.
We believe that a blocklists should be able to maintain itself by donations from its users, and not by donation drives in news articles. Also, we felt that it wouldn’t be fair to all other blocklist operators who work very hard without any compensation.
Unfortunately, this didn’t satisfy the IpfilterX guy, who sent this message back…
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Go fuck yourself …
There’s enough to kick your ass lifetime …
Sucker…
You only a 2 cent worth writer …
that’s it…
When P2People changed things you was sucking milk from your mom bobs…
You are none…
We shall survive somehow…
But I swear that I will piss on your face a day…
FUCK YOU… You DO NOTHING TO PROTECT USERS…
Ignorant useless piece of walking flesh…
I hope that a day , because God exists , you will get troubles as many as we got.
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This was a few months ago, but today this rant was followed up by a mention in their famous blocklist. On their website IpfilterX now writes the following.
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We asked help also to Torrentfreak Frontman Ernesto but he wrote nothing yet and We won’t ask further , seeing that people kind like this help to protect filesharing users now they are banned as LameFreak .
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Charming isn’t it?
Long live censorship!