[A2k] The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear All,
The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent site, has been blocked by (some/most ?)
Italian ISPs.  It seems it was an IP-based block.  Thus, it can be
circumvented quite easily.

What normally happens is:
1. Comp requests http://thepiratebay.org
2. ISP's DNS server looks up the IP address for
http://thepiratebay.org to answer query
3. ISP's DNS server resolves http://thepiratebay.org to be http://83.140.176.200
4. ISP serves http://83.140.176.200

Italian ISPs stepped in at stage 3, and blocked that IP address from
being served.

Thus, the way to resolve this would be to use some other DNS
resolution server (instead of theISP's).  OpenDNS <www.opendns.com>
provides such a service, with DNS servers 208.67.222.222 and
208.67.220.220

Italians can also continue to access TPB by using http://labaia.org/
("La Baia" being "The Bay" in Italian.)

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/123
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/10/1934231