"Piracy Filter" Blocks TorrentFreak for 4 Million Sky Customers 122
An anonymous reader writes "Website blocking has become a hot topic in the UK in recent weeks. Opponents of both voluntary and court-ordered blockades have warned about the potential collateral damage these blocking systems may cause, and they have now been proven right. As it turns out blocked sites can easily exploit the system and add new IP-addresses to Sky's blocklist. As a result TorrentFreak has been rendered inaccessible to the ISP's four million customers."
Re:There we have it (Score:4, Interesting)
It explains why the Linux distros in my upload queue have had a lot less activity lately.
Re:There we have it (Score:4, Interesting)
Um, hello? It's called "Let's not only block the thing we're against, let's block any mention of that thing as well". Sort of like what the Russian government seems to be trying to do the LGBT community there.
So, far from being "collateral damage", this means the (censorship) system is working just as intended.