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Originally Posted by BookCat
I've just read back through some of this thread and noticed that the issue of pirating has been raised. I don't know if it's just in the UK, but access to pirate sites is blocked by internet providers. I think this is due to a law which came into force a few years ago, making the providers responsible for any pirating.
So it's virtually impossible to access pirate copies of ebooks, movies etc here. I'm sure that some expert techies find a way round it, but it's not worth the bother, and I would imagine that the law severely punishes offenders now.
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This may be true for the sites you tried to access but there are many, many sources of pirated books on the internet and I bet the majority are not blocked by UK ISPs.
Until two years ago I was resident in the UK and liked to be aware of what the Dark Side was up to