China hijacks BitTorrent sites

[Trooper110]

China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites | TorrentFreak

I am so freaking happy I don't live in that country with all of the things that they do to the internet.

[K PhaNTOM]

They can stop the big sites for amateurs, but never be able to stop private trackers. Good luck to them thou, at least they are doing something.

[Trooper110]

They're not stopping them, they're hijacking the DNS and directing users to China's main search engine. Try reading the article Phantom *grins*

China has since removed the blocks, but it was clearly a DNS hijack according to the article, rather than a mix up, according to the Chinese. China's not worried about blocking illegal downloads of digital material, they're worried about controlling their population.

[K PhaNTOM]

I read the article, redirects to their google etc etc. I'm just saying they can't stop their people from getting what they want.