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The Pirate Bay and several other pirate sites are unavailable again in many parts of the world, due to a new blockade from Internet backbone provider Cogent. The site's IP-addresses, which are owned by CDN provider Cloudflare, have been blackholed, in what appears to be another case of over-blocking.
Cogent has now blocked Cloudflare’s new IP-addresses as well. This effectively renders The Pirate Bay and other sites such as TorrentProject, Icefilms, Torlock, Popcorn-Time, Movie4k and 1Channel inaccessible on its network.
The Pirate Bay blocked by cogent again
Cogent has blackholed the IP-addresses 104.31.16.3 and 104.31.17.3 which are all shared by these sites. This is likely another case of over-blocking, unless there is a new court order listing all the sites on these IP-addresses.
originally posted by: PhoenixOD
I used to use a file sharing service that was like ftp years ago. You had to share a folder on you hard drive to get access, it had chatrooms and everything. Just cant remember what it was called.
originally posted by: Kettu
a reply to: Mandroid7
No...that doesn't sound like it. I remember what he's talking about. This was YEARS ago, before torrenting.
It reminded me of IRC mixed with Napster, and there were strict ratios enforced. It wasn't easy to get into unless you had a lot and were willing to share a lot.
I do remember that Yahoo! chat rooms were popular at the time. I want to say this was before 2002.
originally posted by: worldstarcountry
a reply to: PhoenixOD
Don't forget IRC never died, it just went further underground. Those old serverbots with their lists and queue slots are still spamming those channels with their "hustled goods" . Im thinking of going that route again. I hear ftp servers are still out there with access granted to contributors. Some of the fastest speeds you can get to.
originally posted by: PhoenixOD
I used to use a file sharing service that was like ftp years ago. You had to share a folder on you hard drive to get access, it had chatrooms and everything. Just cant remember what it was called.