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. I wonder where the NA'S or the ALAC is on this one? Hiding perhaps? Or just disinterested? Under/non-funded to oppose effectively? Score: ALAC and Naralo's 0 IPC and the IP ACTA folks 1 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.) Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827