Posi
11-02-2008, 20:37
According to The Pirate Bay (http://courtblog.thepiratebay.org/2008/02/08/denmark-first-look/), a recent blocking of their website by a major ISP has only increased traffic to their site.
So what has happened in Denmark now the past days?
Actually, the number of visits from Denmark has increased by 12% thanks to Ifpi. Our site http://thejesperbay.org is growing more because of the media attention than people actually coming to learn how to bypass the filter - our guess is that alot of the users on the site now run OpenDNS instead of the censoring DNS at Tele2.dk.
We also started tracking some stats before and after the block. There’s no noticable difference between the number of users from Tele2.dk before and after.
The current opinion of the site is that the ban has been quite buzzworthy and basically acted as an advertisement for the website. This has resulted in more people from the country to actually head over to the site and us it. To add insult to injury, the Pirate Bay's weblogs do not indicate that they have received much less traffic from the ISP that blocked them. There are instructions detailing workarounds, and people seem to be following them.
I find this to be quite what I had expected. I find it rather bizarre, that some as involved with the internet as an ISP would actually think this would work.
So what has happened in Denmark now the past days?
Actually, the number of visits from Denmark has increased by 12% thanks to Ifpi. Our site http://thejesperbay.org is growing more because of the media attention than people actually coming to learn how to bypass the filter - our guess is that alot of the users on the site now run OpenDNS instead of the censoring DNS at Tele2.dk.
We also started tracking some stats before and after the block. There’s no noticable difference between the number of users from Tele2.dk before and after.
The current opinion of the site is that the ban has been quite buzzworthy and basically acted as an advertisement for the website. This has resulted in more people from the country to actually head over to the site and us it. To add insult to injury, the Pirate Bay's weblogs do not indicate that they have received much less traffic from the ISP that blocked them. There are instructions detailing workarounds, and people seem to be following them.
I find this to be quite what I had expected. I find it rather bizarre, that some as involved with the internet as an ISP would actually think this would work.