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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 1.225s | source
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amiga386 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44571961[source]▶
PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser. Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. Thank you.

You can also access 4chan, Tattle Life, and other nasty gossip websites that the UK nanny state wants to ban.

And you can access the porn on Reddit and Twitter (though in some cases you'll have to make an account). And of course the "tube" sites work fine.

After you've done that, as a UK citizen, please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 and ask the government to repeal their awful law.

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blackhaj7 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44572325[source]▶
> Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. I have never used tor so novice question: why not?

> please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 Signed!

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Retr0id ◴[15 Jul 25 15:52 UTC] No.44572435[source]▶
The tor network essentially relies on donated exit node bandwidth, and there's a finite capacity at any point in time. Torrenting is a bandwidth hog (and a lot of exit nodes will filter it out anyway)
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noisem4ker ◴[15 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44573369[source]▶
Is it really just a matter of my bandwidth being hogged up, or more a risk of getting my IP address (range) banned, if not worse legal risks from activities being traced to me?
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1. johnmaguire ◴[15 Jul 25 17:12 UTC] No.44573468[source]▶
Yes, an exit node operator will appear as the source of the traffic, which can have legal repercussions. (Personal risk.)

But on a macro scale, the entire Tor network has fairly limited bandwidth and torrenting is a very easy way to saturate it. (Existential risk to the network / tragedy of the commons)