TPB Banned in Oz

[Kainada]

Today there was a ruling that TPB is to be blocked in Australia.
Sadly this will take place in the next 2 weeks.
Will a VPN get past this?!

Cheers!

[Moe]

Just download tor browser and use the .onion address

[Sid]

i.e. yes, a VPN will get past it, but you have to pay for a [decent] VPN.

Tor browser is free, easier, and gets past more types of block than a VPN.

[Thief_]

Isn't this censorship? Isn't this against our right to browse whichever web sites we want to browse? Next Telstra ISP will ban access to all opposing ISP's pages, The government will ban access to anti-government news, etc ...... do you see where this is heading??

I cannot believe they allowed this.

Full story shows other torrent sites being banned as well: https://s115a.com/sites/blocked

[RobertX]

Let's not get too paranoid here.

After all, there are cases where copyright trolls paid dearly for their viciousness to bypass lawful procedures to extort and blackmail.
https://torrentfreak.com/prenda-copyrigh...on-161216/


Life is an even-handed game.

[Thief_]

I found a way around this by installing the Tor browser but I found that it could not do things like restore the previous session tabs, and few other things which I was not happy with. I even installed TabMixPlus as it uses its own Session Manager but that did not work.

I figgered out that the Tor browser was actually a proxy server as well so if I ran FireFox and set the proxy on Firefox to 127.0.0.1 port 9150, I could use the Tor network. Cool! I then put in an exception for the local subnet so that requests to the local devices would not go thru the proxy and can now access the portals on my local devices such as my router, network devices and printers.

The only issue is that I need to run the Tor Browser for FireFox to work so I was wondering if there is a service I can run to replace the Tor browser's internal proxy and thus not have to run it each time?

[Moe]

Yes - you can install just tor independently:

https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en

Then you can route any application that can use a SOCKS proxy through tor.

[Philidor]

Isn't this censorship? Isn't this against our right to browse whichever web sites we want to browse? Next Telstra ISP will ban access to all opposing ISP's pages, The government will ban access to anti-government news, etc ...... do you see where this is heading??

I cannot believe they allowed this.

Full story shows other torrent sites being banned as well: https://s115a.com/sites/blocked

What right? Rights are given by whatever nation you live in. We might all wish it otherwise, but that's the way it is.

Censorship not only exists, but exists everywhere. Just as you wouldn't want someone to enter your house, wipe their muddy shoes on your couch and tell you that your ideas of personal property are full of shit, other folks will have their own sense of what constitutes censorship. The point isn't censoring. It's ownership and access: who has the right to share content.

Most of us (including myself) believe information should be available to all, and entertainment (after a reasonable amount of time to make a profit) as well. The big media corporations believe they should have the right to own something in perpetuity, despite getting only pennies for something that was filmed/recorded/printed as far back as a hundred years ago.

I say, fuck 'em. Censorship isn't the issue. But until they cede control--which they never will--we can only use grand sites like this one to take what should rightfully belong to all and make it available to all.