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Old 02-22-2012, 05:01 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Yes and no. Nothing stops seasoned pirates, but it could prevent a lot of more casual users from going there.
That's true, but it's more likely to be to dramatically reduce TPB's advertising income. With whole countries cut off, their hit rate will plummet, so they won't be as attractive to advertisers. Casual users will just gravitate to one of the other torrent sites that Google directs them to instead

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A VPN service is always an option, but when you download a few GB via a free VPN service you can prepared to wait a few days until it finishes. And fast, good VPN services cost money.
They would be more likely to just use the VPN for the torrent file (a few kb) and then download normally when they have it.
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