What the recent court ruling forces the Belgian ISP’s to do (at risk of a hefty fine), is to simply stop answering to any requests for certain domains (e.g. For Telenet, these DNS servers look like: .X, for Belgacom, they are situated in the .X range. When your system wants to translate a website-adress into a numerical identifier, it contacts a DNS Server, which is basicly just a big table with all the translations in it. This is usually provided by your ISP, and will be the default one if you haven’t made any changes to your internet settings. Which of those two is easier to remember for you? It’s a system that translates human-readable website addresses into numerical identifiers which can be used by your computer. What is DNS?ĭNS stands for wikipedia”>Domain Name System. I’m writing this post because I’m against censorship on the internet (this sets a dangerous precedent), not because I’m in favor of copyright infringement or other illegal activities. The court ordered them to do a DNS-level block of the domain names, which is easy to circumvent. Today, two of Belgium’s biggest operators, Telenet and Belgacom, got a court order to block the website, and about 20 alternative URL’s to the same site. Update: TPB shared some unblocking tips here. There, people have to use VPNs or proxy sites.

This doesn’t work in the UK, Netherlands etcetera.

Update: This post is for the Belgium blockade only, where IP-addresses are not blocked.

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