8th March, 2020.
Yes: I’ve got one last birthday present to come.
Dinner with the family, today.
At a little place in town I’ve never heard of.
It should be good.
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Talking of which … ?
I went up to Brentwood Library, yesterday. To reassure myself the laptop could connect up to the Library’s wi-fi.
It could.
I know I was … ummm … poking around, as well.
And cam across this page.
Basically?
The link is a proxy — an indirect connection — to Pirate Bay.
Pirate Bay? Allows us to download torrent files: specialised files that let you download various types of content.
Usually in conjunction with a torrent client: the type of app that does the downloading.
I downloaded the version of Ubuntu on my laptop via a torrent file, to give you an example.
But, famously? The Torrent technique can also be used to download copyrighted material — movies, TV shows, what have you — for free: from sites like Pirate Bay, KAT, LimeTorrent, and the recently reestablished Demonoid.
So — in line with a pair of court orders from a few years ago — internet service providers are supposed to block access to them, and their proxies.
Given that?
How I managed to get through to a Pirate Bay proxy, yesterday?
I really don’t know …
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