In the UK a range of sites are now blocked including The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy. But despite very public High Court orders the true extent of the censorship is unknown as the actual URL blocking list is being kept out of the public eye. However, through an unexpected turn of events last week, TorrentFreak discovered that at least one independent domain not operated by any of the sites in question is also being censored. […]
While the various and extremely detailed High Court rulings are available for public consumption, the actual list of domains being supplied by the record labels to the ISPs is not. This lack of transparency has done nothing to convince critics that there’s nothing to hide but through a series of coincidences, TorrentFreak discovered that perhaps there is. […]
The big issue here is why the blocking list is being kept out of the public eye. The Voxanon site is indeed a Pirate Bay proxy, but there is no mention of that site in the High Court order and no ruling that it operates illegally. In addition to the concern that mores sites will eventual creep onto this list it raises the specter of more blocklists being created in future, again with no public accountability. […]