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UPDATE 1: I heard on the forum of Piratgruppen that Tele2 is gonna block access to The Pirate Bay by blocking the actual IP addresses, and not just DNS forgery. However the info below could be very useful, if the person that told me this is wrong, or if other ISPs resort to DNS forgery instead of IP censorship.

UPDATE 2: In the comments section of this post, I received the notion that you may need to flush the DNS cache of your operating system, after inserting the address configurations below into the hosts file.

On GNU/Linux this is done by restarting the nscd daemon, which you do by opening a terminal and typing: su -c “/etc/init.d/nscd restart”
You will be asked for your root password to continue.

On Windows you flush the DNS cache by going to Start, select Run, type in cmd and a commandprompt should appear. In the commandprompt type: ipconfig /flushdns
You should then receive something like this: “Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.”.

On Mac OS X you flush the DNS cache by opening the terminal, and running: lookupd -flushcache

“It is the Internet service provider Tele2, that has been ordered to block customers from accessing the site PirateBay.org. The company says this case is different from Allofmp3.com.

It is the Telenor-owned Internet service provider Tele2 who a court has ordered to block customers from accessing to the much debated Swedish Internet site piratebay.org.

Nicholai Pfeiffer, chief of regulation for Tele2, confirms this.

“It is Tele2, who was ordered by court last week,” says Nicholai Pfeiffer to Computerworld.”

Source: Tele2-kunder får spærret adgang til PirateBay.

I cannot believe my eyes! This is simply revolting!!! Not only is this an attack on the freedom of the Internet, it’s an attack on freedom of information, freedom of culture, and yes even free speech (Because one could distribute George W. Bush’s torture manuals on The Pirate Bay).

I can’t come up with words that properly how I feel about this. But then again, “Action speak louder than words!”. So here’s some action for you!

If the censoring of The Pirate Bay is the same as the censoring of Allofmp3.com and Mp3sparks.com, which is just a forgery of DNS records, then you can easily get around it by either using a different DNS server, using Tor, or by inserting this into your system’s hosts file:

# Allofmp3
87.242.93.250 allofmp3.com
87.242.93.250 www.allofmp3.com

# Mp3sparks
88.255.90.100 mp3sparks.com
88.255.90.100 www.mp3sparks.com

# The Pirate Bay
83.140.176.146 thepiratebay.org
83.140.176.146 www.thepiratebay.org
83.140.176.146 piratebay.org
83.140.176.146 www.piratebay.org
83.140.176.148 static.thepiratebay.org
83.140.176.149 rss.thepiratebay.org
83.140.176.150 upload.thepiratebay.org
83.140.176.156 torrents.thepiratebay.org
83.140.176.157 captcha.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.134 tracker.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.134 open.tracker.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.136 tracker.prq.to
77.247.176.151 tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.153 eztv.tracker.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.153 tv.tracker.prq.to
77.247.176.153 vtv.tracker.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.153 a.tracker.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.154 vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org
77.247.176.154 tv.tracker.thepiratebay.org
88.80.6.166    mx.thepiratebay.org
83.140.176.159 ns0.thepiratebay.org
88.80.6.166    ns1.thepiratebay.org
85.17.40.33    ns2.thepiratebay.org
217.75.120.120 ns3.thepiratebay.org

The location of the hosts file differs between the various operating systems out there, Wikipedia has a complete list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file#Location_and_default_content.

Happy File Sharing! 😉

To IFPI:
I’d like to kindly ask you to LEAVE THE INTERNET ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

“CALGARY – Outspoken conservative commentator Ezra Levant will be before the Alberta Human Rights Commission Friday defending his former magazine’s 2006 publication of a series of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Members of Calgary’s Muslim community were outraged when Levant’s now-defunct publication, the Western Standard, published the cartoons in February 2006, shortly after their initial appearance in a Danish newspaper led to rioting and protests around the world.”
Source: Conservative who published Prophet cartoons faces rights commission.

If there’s anything in this world I am getting tired of, it’s crap like this! Just listen to these guys:

Syed Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, later filed a complaint against the Western Standard to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.”

If anybody deserve to be sued it’s these guys, for trying to trump freedom of speech! Who do they think they are? And why the hell do they file a complaint to a Human Rights Commission? That’s one of the most asinine things I’ve heard in my entire life! Nobody has any “right not to be offended”, they can just not listen to a given person, not read a certain paper or not look at a certain picture! It’s that simple. I could understand if the newspaper was making threats against Muslims and Islam, but I’m confident that they did not.

I’m sorry, but stuff like this just pisses me off, it’s like they’re trying to pervert the term “human rights” just because they can’t get to be right. Ugh, it’s like a child whining all-day because he/she aren’t allowed to get some get candy or something like that!!!
If you can’t accept that freedom of speech is an essential right in all genuinely free countries, then you shouldn’t reside in that country. If you believe that other people shouldn’t be able to say things you disagree with sort of person, go live in some country like China, Iran, Burma, North Korea or similar countries, with a totalitarian regimes that doesn’t allow freedom of speech.

Just added the complete source code of OpenVPN to my crypto page, if you have access to any sort of web space, I would encourage you to do the same. Show the governments of the world that surveillance, spying on citizens and censorship is unethical!

A few weeks ago, I sat in front of my computer reading about various new surveillance laws in Germany and the United States. Adding that to what I know is happening in China, Burma, Iran and similar places, in addition to the new controversial anti-terrorism law in Denmark (Allowing the police to monitor any telecommunications traffic they want to, in a few cases without a court order), I just got fed up with the whole thing, and got this interesting feeling of rebellion.

In countries like China, the websites of various political groups and human rights observers are censored. Wikipedia for example is blocked in China, and Google’s search results are censored. So with that in mind, I figured that for all I knew, China could be blocking the webpages of GnuPG, which the GNU project’s free implementation of OpenPGP, OpenBSD’s OpenSSH project could be censored as well. Also, the Danish government seems to believe that by subjecting every citizen to possible surveillance, they will automatically prevent terrorists from killing innocent people. Let me tell you something, the real terrorists out there, the ones you really have to be aware of, are smart enough to use stronger encryption than most banks use!! There’s an excellent, and famous (Rightly so) statement by American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman Benjamin Franklin, saying “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”. To me, freedom of speech and privacy are more than essential liberties, they’re human rights, and both are being violated by China, and now the government of Denmark, respectively mind you!

To sort of protest against both of these injustices, I decided to mirror a handful of programs for doing various sorts of cryptography operations. GnuPG for encrypting files, email, chat conversations etc. etc., OpenSSH for logging securely into remote systems (And also transferring files and doing authentication) and OpenSSL for embedding Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security into applications like web browsers and chat clients.

To everybody in countries like China, who might need encryption software, take a look at the “Encryption software” page in the menu to the right of this. It’s only the source code that I have mirrored, because it’s ONLY by having that, that you can be sure that your government is not embedding evil spy features behind your back.