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techdigest.tv - 12/1/2008
UPDATE: Orange not blocking the Pirate Bay after all
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Turns out that all the fuss over Orange blocking the Pirate Bay was a simple internet error. Orange has just got in touch with us, claiming innocence while awkwardly avoiding naming the site in question: "We can confirm that we have not actively stopped customers accessing the web sites ...

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Mobile Operators throttling access to the InterWeb – probably/possibly/definitely?
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... Recent IT news suggested that Orange was blocking access to The Pirate Bay (which itself doesn’t seem to have been out of the news this year!), but it turns out that was purely a routing issue. ...

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