The company has valued its initial public offering at $22.50 a share ahead of its public debut on the NYSE today. Last week, the Federal Court of Australia ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to five major torrent websites.King Digital Entertainment ( BATS: KING), the maker of highly addictive game Candy Crush Saga, is all set for an IPO. This was a result of court action taken by rights holders Foxtel and Village Roadshow in their desperate fight against piracy. it's incredibly easy to bypass any site-blocking implemented by ISPs. So is it legal for Australians to access the blocked websites locally? Let's find out. It’s not illegal to use a VPN to access the blocked sites but the Village Roadshow co-chief executive Graham Burke doesn’t seem too concerned about that. He thinks most people wouldn’t want to fork out money for a VPN.Īnd he may be right. VPNs aren’t that expensive (some cost less than $US10 a month), but that’s still money you didn’t need to spend before. Luckily, there are ways to bypass the ISP blocking of the five torrent sites for free. ISPs can use DNS blocking, IP address blocking, URL blocking or any other technical method (so long as the rights holders are happy with it) to block access to the torrent websites. DNS-level blocks are extremely easy to bypass you can do it in a pinch.Īs far as we know, Telstra, which started using this method to restrict access to The Pirate Bay on December 20. Maybe the telco is deliberately using this method so that users can easily bypass it.
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