Blocking Pirate Bay obviously working as traffic shoots up
A Pirate Bay spokesperson has said that the site has seen over 12 million more visitors than ever before after the High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block it.
Virgin Media was quick to bring the block in, but the national news coverage has funnelled millions more people than usual to the site.
"Thanks to the High Court and the fact that the news was on the BBC, we had 12 million more visitors yesterday than we had ever had before.
"We should write a thank you note to the BPI [British Phonographic Industry]," a spokesperson told TorrentFreak.
Pirates: 1 West India Trading Company: 0
Aside from the free publicity, circumventing The Pirate Bay block is relatively easy to do – and The Pirate Bay is actively encouraging users to do it by posting instructions (if you're on a blocked connection, The Pirate Party is mirroring the info here).
Aside from Virgin, Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk and O2 are all required to stop their customers from being able to access the Pirate Bay because of its use for spreading pirated music.From TorrentFreak
The explosive growth rate displayed after the Pirate Bay verdict has skyrocketed the Pirate Party’s member count and today they’ve surpassed that of the Center Party. Of all the established parties only the Social Democratic Party and the Moderate Party have more members.
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