Can you visit the pirate bay?

w1z4rd

w1z4rd

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I just want to do a quick test here in regards to thepiratebay.org. A lot of people seem to think its being censored out by SAIX, so lets do the litmus test.

Could you please try tell me if you can access http://www.thepiratebay.org

Please state your connection type and ISP, IE:

Cant access site:

ISP: Openweb SAIX


Can access site:

ISP: OpenWeb IS

On Iburst I can access the site on a SAIX account I am unable to.
 
I dont know, thats what I am trying to find out. Postmanpot made a post about it a while ago, now I am very curious. I think its time we find out whats happening. If I am being censored I want to know what else is being censored.
 
Can access site:
ISP: Openweb (IS)

Can't access site:
ISP: WebAfrica (SAIX)

Definitely looks like a SAIX issue to me.
 
Can't access, noticed it at the begining of the month, it must be blocked from our side!!! I can access via a proxy no problem! This is unaceptable! Last time I checked we still had freedom of speech and movement in SA didn't we? Anyway in the mean time use http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepiratebay.org/ to access via anonymouse. Time to mail the free the internet movement!!
 
IS - Yes
SAIX: Telkom - No
 
ASS_SAZiN` said:
Hmm, im with IS, can't access it direct but via proxy it's fine.
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Could you please explain in detail (I am a little slow :)), how you proxy around it so those on SAIX can use the site.

For the rest of your fella`s, what do you think of this? Is this legal? Are we being censored? Whats your opinion on this?
 
w1z4rd said:
Could you please explain in detail (I am a little slow :)), how you proxy around it so those on SAIX can use the site.

For the rest of your fella`s, what do you think of this? Is this legal? Are we being censored? Whats your opinion on this?
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Well, goto www.anonymouse.org choose the british flag and type in thepiratebay.org and browse. Duno if you can use the same method to access the tracker havn't tried it yet. Won't think it would be an issue as you olny need to get list of seeds etc. so if you must use it for tracker just append the anonymouse url to what ever the trackers annonce url is.
 
Ok then if we all can't see it on SAIX(Direct with no proxy) then it must be SAIX/Telkom.
 
So any ideas what else they take upon themselves to block?

What exactly are they hoping for btw? Less people downloading torrents, or just a moral duty?
 
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