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China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites

torrentfreak.com — China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine

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  • AManWithNoName, on 11/08/2008, -8/+44I'm not in any way surprised. While China has made leaps and bounds in recent years, they've also proven to still be very much an oppressive government (Need I remind you of the incident with the Tibetans?). Of course they're going to censor sites. And of course these sites will be the ones that allow the most freedom of speech and anonymity, both of which reign supreme over torrent sites.
  • dengzhi, on 11/08/2008, -0/+34it doesn't matter, Chinese in China don't use western torrent sites, they have their own BT sites that still work.
  • rnawky, on 11/08/2008, -4/+36They didn't "Hijack" anything. All they did was make China based DNS servers point those domain names to other servers....
  • h3110, on 11/08/2008, -2/+29"They're" as in they are
  • deadleaf, on 11/08/2008, -0/+26Stealing traffic == stealing income. And who do they call thieves?
  • grantmoore3d, on 11/08/2008, -2/+26Buried as Inaccurate, they didn't hi-jack the websites... that implies taking control of the servers. All they did was re-direct traffic.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+21THERE! WHERE? TELL ME!?
  • deathvult, on 11/08/2008, -1/+17Internet should not have any restrictions, this is my opinion.
    Cheerz
  • skunkman62, on 11/08/2008, -1/+12there morans and your dum
  • monkeyrun, on 11/08/2008, -0/+10Why pay a dollar when you could get it for free?
  • CVL4317, on 11/08/2008, -2/+12are they trying to provoke thepiratebay or something?
  • Proteus1935, on 11/08/2008, -0/+10http://83.140.176.200/
    worldwide net neutrality effort
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -2/+11Australia is about to do the same.
  • orky7, on 11/08/2008, -2/+9no way i am using that sucked up chinese search engine whatever they do...........
  • Tetromos, on 11/08/2008, -1/+8Long live The Pirate Bay!
  • grantmoore3d, on 11/08/2008, -2/+9Buried for saying "Buried for saying "leaps and bounds""
  • OrangeTide, on 11/08/2008, -2/+9in the news: thepiratebay tries to overthrow chinese government, and is never heard from again.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+6It seems a lot of people here didn't actually read the article... they removed the redirections.
    ***** is Australia really going to do this? *****! New Zealand is going to blindly follow Australia I bet :(.
  • CYR1X, on 11/08/2008, -1/+7Case closed.
  • enkideridu, on 05/15/2009, -0/+6"next to nothing" according to western wages you mean.
    btw google "bt 下载"
    bt meaning bittorrent, 下载 meaning download
    see how many chinese BT sites there are.

    Also, bitcomet and flashget are both chinese bt clients made by chinese devs (although flashget only got bt functionality recently).
  • iLoveGoogle, on 11/09/2008, -3/+8***** YOU CHINA! ***** YOU!
  • dupswapdrop, on 11/08/2008, -3/+8Hm-mm lets see can I re-direct all the spam I get to china? I bet they need lots and lots of penis pills over there.
  • mhl12, on 11/08/2008, -6/+11Chinese don't use BT period. They can get all the bootlegged music, movies, games, etc. on the streets for next to nothing.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -1/+6I think you are buried for saying UK is relatively free country like having surveillance CCTV cameras,national id card schemes,crack down on people sharing files etc..
  • Rsam, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5Tell that to throttling isp customers.
  • wpyh, on 11/09/2008, -1/+5You can only have freedom of speech and democracy if your basic needs (food, clothing and shelter) covered. Therefore, for hundreds of millions of people in China, freedom of speech and democracy means nothing.

    And that includes me. I live in a city, and I don't starve. I live pretty well on my salary, if you ask me. But I would _gladly_ give up my free speech and freedom of information to be able to live here.

    And I'm not a Chinese citizen either. I just want to follow the rules wherever I go.
  • chazuk, on 11/08/2008, -2/+6OK!
  • freefallgrue, on 11/08/2008, -2/+6Makes sense. They only give a damn about copyright when they're not making money by ripping someone off.

    They certainly don't give a damn when their companies are stealing designs.
  • breadfred, on 11/08/2008, -1/+5At least I don't get imprisoned for expressing my opinions. I prefer to dugg down.
  • benighted, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Chinese don't use BT? This is the stupidest thing I ever heard in a while.
    http://bt.btchina.net/
  • matthekc, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3pirates vs china smackdown 2008-2009
  • buckchoris, on 11/08/2008, -2/+5And let them direct more of the 419 nigerian mails over to you,you guys need money from african billionaires.
  • Bloodweaver, on 11/08/2008, -3/+6The Tibet issue is a pointless argument. There is just as much of an argument that the American Indians should be given North America back.
  • ZigVicious, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3I'd buy tickets.
  • hamobu, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3Also:

    China Vs. Internet file sharing: - Who can break more copyrights?
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Or Cuba, or Australia...
  • hamobu, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3Pirates Vs. Communists! It's on!
  • skunkman62, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3i also used "morans". oh *****, i should have used "an" FTW.
  • RiceLee22, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2You can't eat freedom. But of course in your country they'll never let you eat your words, Mr. Freedom-or-Death.

    Unless you live life as an eternal bum, refusing the opportunity to trade your natural freedom for food or shelter or money, I'm going to have to call ***** on your words.

    In the rare case that you do value freedom so highly that you are dying for it, then I have no criticism for you.
  • benighted, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2I use eMule and Rapidshare %90 of the time, so this doesn't affect me at all,and I can still go to these sites with torpark.
  • joshman5k, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Our Chinese speaking Prime Minister is doing the same thing is Australia.
  • DarkShroud, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2Where do you think BitComet is from.
  • addiktion, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2It's the proper wording that attracts visitors. "Hijack" sounds so much bigger as it's widely associated with terrorism in the U.S.
  • wpyh, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2@evilesttoast
    We don't have bandwidth caps here in China.
  • shade45, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2Why would you even try to access it? *shudders*
  • DestroyFascism, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2I will toss eggs at them if they do.
  • inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2that's utter ***** though, Australian based trackers have been shut down (only tards try that ***** here lol anyway), overseas sites will always be available. Point me to the article or whatever you read with _all_ our ISP's making the announcement that sites will be blocked.
  • twystoffate, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2I approve of your long winded and spirited speech.
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