First Australian ISP Has Blocked The Pirate Bay

mothered · 12-21-2016, 05:47 AM

Greetings everyone,

Further to my previous thread pertaining to a court order ruling that Australian ISPs must block The Pirate Bay and other popular torrent sites, "Telstra" Is the first ISP to take action. I'm In total disbelief that they've used a "DNS block" to try and prevent access. The court procedure and all costs Involved, was simply a waste of time and money.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/first-aussie-pi...ds-161220/

Your thoughts.

d0ntjump · 12-21-2016, 06:06 AM

(12-21-2016, 05:47 AM)mothered Wrote: Greetings everyone,

Further to my previous thread pertaining to a court order ruling that Australian ISPs must block The Pirate Bay and other popular torrent sites, "Telstra" Is the first ISP to take action. I'm In total disbelief that they've used a "DNS block" to try and prevent access. The court procedure and all costs Involved, was simply a waste of time and money.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/first-aussie-pi...ds-161220/

Your thoughts.

Do you think they intentionally implemented the weakest block? They might just be a bunch of retards...

mothered · 12-21-2016, 06:09 AM

(12-21-2016, 06:06 AM)d0ntjump Wrote: Do you think they intentionally implemented the weakest block? They might just be a bunch of retards...

I don't know what they were thinking, or If any thought was generated to begin with.

From their standpoint (being the biggest ISP In the country), It's embarrassing.

d0ntjump · 12-21-2016, 06:21 AM

(12-21-2016, 06:09 AM)mothered Wrote:
(12-21-2016, 06:06 AM)d0ntjump Wrote: Do you think they intentionally implemented the weakest block? They might just be a bunch of retards...

I don't know what they were thinking, or If any thought was generated to begin with.

From their standpoint (being the biggest ISP In the country), It's embarrassing.

I must agree. I'm curious to see what happens next. To Be Continued...

zorrophreak · 12-21-2016, 06:31 AM

A friend of mine worked with Telstra before in the past and while they're pretty lenient with what transfers through their network (on the backend anyways) they are, as @d0ntjump put it, "a bunch of retards." Just look at their mishap on their AS1221. I get it that BGP doesn't have any detection, but the fact that they had absolutely no filtering systems put in place to prevent such an attack is just pitiful. It's actually the reason he parted ways with Telstra. Its on my list of companies to not work with.

sleaze · 12-21-2016, 07:15 AM

meanwhile in australia
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mothered · 12-21-2016, 09:04 AM

(12-21-2016, 07:15 AM)sleaze Wrote: meanwhile in australia

Priceless.

I have nothing more to add.

insidious · 12-21-2016, 06:49 PM

Hah! Maybe they set a precendant that the rest of the ISP's can follow. In a best case scenario they just do what telstra did and they are 'abiding' by the law, while still basically keeping open TPB. In that case the Australians got lucky.

Would be funny if that happened

Zeus · 12-22-2016, 02:38 AM

InB4 Sinisterly gets blocked Tongue

Bish0pQ · 12-22-2016, 10:12 AM

I don't understand why they're still trying. They can try block torrents as long as they want, but they won't be able to do it.
When are they going to understand that they should leave torrents alone and focus on the more serious violations like human trafficking and stuff like that.

Also, do they have potato's working there at Telstra? What exactly were they thinking a DNS block would do?