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April 25, 2015 08:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BIl39q5vgUM/pirate-bay-blockade-censors-cloudflare-customers
Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers
An anonymous reader writes: The blockade of the Pirate Bay by UK ISPs is causing trouble for CloudFlare customers. Several websites have been inadvertently blocked by Sky because a Pirate Bay proxy is hosted behind the same IP-addresses. In a response, CloudFlare threatened to disconnect the proxy site from its network. Like any form of censorship web blockades can sometime lead to overblocking, targeting perfectly legitimate websites by mistake. This is also happening in the UK where Sky's blocking technology is inadvertently blocking sites that have nothing to do with piracy.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BIl39q5vgUM/pirate-bay-blockade-censors-cloudflare-customers
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