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As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
This list is passed to the public estate institutions so that access to the sites can be blocked. ISPs BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media incorporate the CTIRU block list into their filters. [151] The CTIRU also issues removal requests if the Internet content is hosted in the UK. [152] The UK is the only country in the world with such a unit.
On 2 October 2009, The Pirate Bay's hosting services moved to Ukraine and their traffic was routed through The Netherlands, but BREIN contacted the ISP NForce and service was stopped. Subsequently The Pirate Bay moved their hosting location to a nuclear bunker owned by CyberBunker just outside Kloetinge in the south of the Netherlands. [79]
John Carr of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety said of the proposals: "a major plank of the UK’s approach to online child protection will be destroyed at a stroke". [39] However, the requirement that a UK government adheres to EU rules on net neutrality may have disappeared when the United Kingdom left the European Union.
Free TV Networks is an American specialized digital multicasting and advertising-supported video on demand network media company. The company owns and operates three broadcast television networks. The company was founded and is led by broadcasting veteran Jonathan Katz, who previously launched what is now the Scripps Networks division of ...
As a result of the ruling, the court has granted a dynamic blockade over The Pirate Bay, which gives BREIN the option to add new domains to the list of Pirate Bay proxies and mirrors.
Initially, The Pirate Bay's four Linux servers ran a custom web server called Hypercube. An old version is open-source. [55] On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2 HTTP requests per millisecond on each of the four web servers, [56] as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the front-end of the website.
The concept of mirroring applies to network services accessible through any protocol, such as HTTP or FTP. Such sites have different URLs than the original site, but host identical or near-identical content. [1] Mirror sites are often located in a different geographic region than the original, or upstream site.