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UK Piracy Blocklist Expands With Demonoid, Isohunt, IPTorrents and More


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The UK website blocking bonanza continues with the High Court adding 32 "pirate" sites to the country’s unofficial ban list. The new order requires six major ISPs to block access to public and private torrent sites, warez sites and streaming portals.

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The list of websites that are blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement is getting longer and longer.

This week a new High Court ruling orders Sky, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica UK and Virgin to block access to 32 piracy related sites.

The newly blocked sites include Demonoid, Watchseries, IPTorrents, TorrentDay, IceFilms, Rarbg and have millions of visitors a day combined.

BT already started adding the new sites to its blocklist yesterday, which caused some confusion among subscribers. The other ISPs are expected to follow suit within the days to come.

This is the first time that private torrent sites are blocked in the UK. This is noteworthy, because sites such as IPTorrents.com, BitSoup.me and TorrentDay.com have no pirated files listed in public. Instead, these are only available to members of the sites in question.

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The latest court order comes after the Motion Picture Association (MPA) filed a complaint that remained uncontested by the ISPs.

Because the ISPs have given up on defending their position in court, it is now a mere formality for copyright holders to have a pirate site banned.

Chris Marcich, President and Managing Director of the MPA, Europe, Middle East and Africa, believes that the ISP blockades are an effective and legitimate tool to deter online copyright infringement.

“Securing court orders requiring ISPs to block access to illegal websites is an accepted and legitimate measure to tackle online copyright infringement,” Marcich says.

“It carefully targets sites whose sole purpose is to make money off the back of other people’s content while paying nothing back into the legitimate economy,” he adds.

Whether the present blocks will be more than a drop in the ocean has yet to be seen. There are many other streaming portals that are still available, which means that the movie studios will probably be back in court in a few months.

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The full list of sites that are currently blocked in the UK is as follows:

New: watchseries.lt, Stream TV, Watchseries-online, Cucirca, Movie25, watchseries.to, Iwannawatch, Warez BB, Ice Films, Tehparadox, Heroturko, Scene Source,, Rapid Moviez, Iwatchonline, Los Movies, Isohunt, Torrentz.pro, Torrentbutler, IP Torrents, Sumotorrent, Torrent Day, Torrenting, BitSoup, TorrentBytes, Seventorrents, Torrents.fm, Yourbittorrent, Tor Movies , Demonoid, torrent.cd, Vertor, Rar BG.

Previously blocked: bittorrent.am, btdigg.org, btloft.com, bts.to, limetorrents.com, nowtorrents.com, picktorrent.com, seedpeer.me, torlock.com, torrentbit.net, torrentdb.li, torrentdownload.ws, torrentexpress.net, torrentfunk.com, torrentproject.com, torrentroom.com, torrents.net, torrentus.eu, torrentz.cd, torrentzap.com, vitorrent.org.Megashare, Viooz, Watch32, Zmovie, Solarmovie, Tubeplus, Primewire, Vodly, Watchfreemovies, Project-Free TV, Yify-Torrents, 1337x, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Monova, Torrentcrazy, Torrentdownloads, Torrentreactor, Torrentz, Ambp3, Beemp3, Bomb-mp3, Eemp3world, Filecrop, Filestube, Mp3juices, Mp3lemon, Mp3raid, Mp3skull, Newalbumreleases, Rapidlibrary, EZTV, FirstRowSports, Download4all, Movie2K, KickAssTorrents, Fenopy, H33T and The Pirate Bay.

Source: TorrentFreak

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kmcknight2001uk

Remember all this started to "protect children"..... hahahahaha... yeah right suckers! :P I'm on BT and can still see the sites mentioned+book marked them for future reference! So business as usual... ;)

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Remember all this started to "protect children"..... hahahahaha... yeah right suckers! :P I'm on BT and can still see the sites mentioned+book marked them for future reference! So business as usual... ;)

Yes you can still view those sites recently blocked using BT if you access them if they have a https method or via VPN or Proxy.

They are blocked if not using any of those methods to access them, well they are for me anyways using BT fibre optic broadband service.

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well that's the end of heroturko for the UK

Access to the websites listed on this page has been blocked pursuant to orders of the high court.

More information can be found at www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk

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That dont stop nothing you can just use a proxy or vpn and access there site . People in China have been blocked like this for a very long time they can still get around it. Looks like the MPA take this as and example that this kind of censorship dont work . There is no ISP blockades in the USA because when they tried to get that passed everyone protested . If these organizations home country want even block sites at a ip or dns level . These other countries are just there puppets and look like a big joke and just being used to do something they cant get done in there own home country. :)

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