Internet service providers and governments have been looking for ways of dealing with piracy for the longest time. Most of the measures tested revolve around punishing people who download files illegally or just outright blocking access to torrent websites altogether. While mildly successful, these measures arn’t really a solution and most pirates know ways of bypassing them and keep downloading ...
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Anti-piracy music site turned into Pirate Bay proxy by hackers
An Argentinian music industry group that goes by the name of CAPIF managed to obtain a blocking injunction against The Pirate Bay a few days ago. This action lead to 11 internet service providers being forced to block 256 Birate Bay IP addresses and 12 domains, which made the torrent website almost completely inaccessible throughout the county. Argentina thus became the first county ...
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