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Can skin-deep website blocking measures by broadband ISPs really help to curb Internet piracy (copyright infringement)? According to the latest traffic data from one of the most notorious and widely blocked sites of all, The Pirate Bay, visitor numbers have climbed despite many ISPs across several major countries censoring access.<\/p>\n

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Back in 2012 the High Court of Justice<\/strong> (London) sided with Rights Holders by issuing a court ordered injunction upon all of the country’s largest broadband ISPs, which used Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act<\/strong> to force the providers into blocking access to The Pirate Bay<\/strong> after it was deemed to facilitate copyright infringement<\/strong> (here<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Shortly after that the ISPs began blocking TPB and since then many other countries have followed suit, although it didn’t take long for one big ISP to note how their data volumes initially dipped 11% immediately after the TPB ban before returning “pretty much back to where they were before<\/em>” as people soon found ways to circumvent their filtering measures (here<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Indeed it’s incredibly easy to circumvent the blocks, such as by using one of many thousands of different Proxy Servers<\/strong> or VPNs<\/strong>, because ISPs cannot physically stop traffic from moving around their measures unless they physically cut the Internet cable. Today the knowledge of how to do this is no longer niche and many people are clearly utilising it to get around the blocks, with the latest visitor traffic graph from TPB (credits to TorrentFreak<\/a>) showing that the site has actually grown in popularity.<\/p>\n

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Sadly the graph doesn’t include the raw data, although it’s claimed that the TPB still receives hundreds of millions worth of monthly pageviews and 9% of visitors from the USA now connect via a Proxy Server (likely to be far higher in the UK of course). Many have also accused the court blocking process of helping to advertise the location of piracy sites, thus boosting their popularity and the related knowledge of circumvention measures.<\/p>\n

By comparison the annual Digital Music Report 2014<\/strong> from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry<\/span><\/a> argued that site blocking is still a “widely-accepted and effective way of curbing piracy online<\/em>” and claims that related P2P (File Sharing) traffic has actually decreased in EU states where the measures have been used (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But the alleged fall could perhaps just as easily be attributed to the rise of affordable online video streaming services, such as Netflix<\/strong> and NOW TV<\/a><\/strong>, which provide an increasingly effective legal alternative. Meanwhile TPBs visitors are only going in one direction and that’s up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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