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Irish ISP Begins Blocking the Pirate Bay

Eircom confirms that beginning yesterday morning any of its “customers who attempt to access the Pirate Bay website from this time will be denied entry.”

Eircom customers were greeted to a rude reality yesterday morning as the ISP formally began blocking access to Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs.

The move is a result of a settlement reached between it and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) who accused the ISP in court of not doing enough to combat copyright infringement by its subscribers.

via Irish ISP Begins Blocking the Pirate Bay.

Tags: BitTorrent, blocking, Eircom, Ireland, IRMA, ISP, Pirate Bay, Zeropaid

Use Firefox to Fix the Web’s Biggest Annoyances – Annoyances – Lifehacker

If you’ve spent more than 5 minutes browsing around the web lately, you’ve no doubt dealt with greedy webmasters assaulting their readers with awful ads and more—but Firefox makes it easy to take back control.

Blocking Unnecessarily Obnoxious Ads

Without question, obnoxious ads are out of control on the web these days—you can barely move your mouse across a page without ads moving around, popping up, taking over the screen or pretending to be a dialog window indicating impending doom if you don’t pay for a system scan NOW. These ads can be put in their place easily, using everybody’s favorite Adblock Plus extension. Lifehacker is, of course, an advertising-supported site—so we’d be grateful if you’d keep us on the whitelist—but it’ll do a charm for those flashing, pop-up-ing, overlaying, obtrusive ads all around the web.

via Use Firefox to Fix the Web’s Biggest Annoyances – Annoyances – Lifehacker.

Tags: ads, blocking, browsing, Firefox, Lifehacker