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		MattBearman on April 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches t... I'm using BT Broadband in the UK and thepiratebay.is is not responding for me. Although I don't get the "Error – Site blocked" message that I get when trying to access priatebay.org, it just never loads. Traceroute stops working somewhere in the BT network (just getting * * * after ukcore.bt.net) so I'm guessing it's being blocked.

losvedir on April 25, 2013 [–]

American here using "The Cloud" wifi in Barbican Center in the City of London. Same deal: never loads. However, after connecting to my VPN back home in the U.S. it loads immediately.

Agreed, they seem to be blocking it.

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