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The UK government's forced ISP-level piracy site blocks are still floating around and it seems that the list of banned sites is still growing as today an additional 13 streaming sites were added to the growing list. This means those using the likes of Virgin Media, BT, Sky, EE, TalkTalk or Telefonica will no longer have access to these websites without using a VPN to circumvent the blocks.
The websites added to the list were mostly streaming sites, rather than places to download torrents. The new list includes the likes of ‘123movies' and ‘Geek TV'.
Here is full list of newly blocked sites (via TorrentFreak):
- 123movies.to
- Geektv.is
- Genvideos.org
- Gowatchseries.biz
- Hdmovies14.net
- Hdmovieswatch.net
- Themovie4u.com
- Moviesub.net
- Movietubenow.biz
- Series-cravings.me
- Spacemov.com
- Streamallthis.is
- Watchmovies.ms
The court order for these sites to be blocked was handed down today, so it may take a little while for all of the major Internet Service Providers to comply. However, within the next few days, these sites will likely become inaccessible.
KitGuru Says: These blocks have been in place for a long time and the list has grown quite a bit. However, I do wonder how successful these ISP-level blocks have been, especially with how easy this stuff is to circumvent.
Somewhere, someone with enough power to initiate the bans, has completely misunderstood how the internet works. Honestly, the entire 1984-esque thing UK’s got going for them plus the whole Brexit thing, is setting UK up as a laughing stock. If they continue this ultraconservative paranoid behavior instead of trying to learn what they are “fighting”, they will probably fall behind everyone else.
Fail.gov.uk – whoever is forcing this utterly pointless blocklists out is wasting their precious lives with this futile stunt