fuck 'em ! who needs shitty torrents anyway 
This is a note to our friends across the pond, friends who may be freaking out about the news of The Pirate Bay potentially being blocked in the United Kingdom. While the news may come as a shock, especially in a country that’s so outspokenly against ACTA, all hope should not be abandoned.
In fact, there’s an easy fix, one that clearly demonstrates the futility of uninformed government officials trying to regulate something they don’t understand. Simply put, if you want to “unblock” TPB, just switch DNS servers.
Much like defeating SOPA measures with IP addresses (instead of domain names), users who want to access TPB but can’t, you might want to think about switching your DNS server, something that is easier than the idea may suggest. However, thanks to a quick how-to by Torrent Freak, you’ll see it’s not that complicated at all. In fact, all you need to know in order to do such a changeover is the IP address for the DNS server you’d like to use:
For the two main alternatives, these are:
- OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
- GoogleDNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
You can configure an alternative DNS server on a per-computer basis, or for your whole network. The first one is the quickest, probably easiest solution, the last one has the huge advantage that all devices on your network will use the new DNS automatically, without the need to configure them all.
From here, TF points to different pieces of documentation, explaining how the configuration process works. Over at OpenDNS, the Windows Vista configuration page is about as easy to follow as one can make it. There are step-by-step screenshots, just in case you can get confused.
For those of you who might be worried that such a bold move would attract the authorities, as Torrent Freak points out, “there’s nothing illegal about using an alternative DNS server.” While this may not be true in an authoritarian country like China, England and its United Kingdom are not quite at that level of citizen control, at least not yet. Of course, if you get caught downloading files in a manner that’s deemed illegal, it won’t matter what kind of DNS server you used.
