Dude, Where’s My P2P: Torrent Sites Hijacked by China

• For 48+ hours, any attempt to access the popular BitTorrent search engines VeryCD, Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay from within China would result in being redirected to Baidu.com, the large Chinese search engine.
• The sites are no longer redirected and are now accessible.
• The hijacks came right after a move by China to ban 10 video hosting sites due to “regulations violations.” Righttttt.
• Wikipedia, YouTube and now torrent search engines have all been censored at one point in time by the Chinese government. Let’s hope this isn’t a sign of further things to come.

If you’re reading this in China, let us know if you’ve come across any other hijacks/cases of web censorship.

TorrentFreak

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