Governments around the world continue to block access to torrent sites, and people keep finding ways around any roadblocks that might be put in place. Proxies and mirrors have been used to get around restrictions, and now the Norwegian Pirate Party has set up its own free DNS service to provide access to the Pirate Bay.
The Pirate Party is an advocate of free, unrestricted access to the internet, and its latest move is a reaction to the government of Norway blocking access to the the Pirate Bay. The uncensored DNS servers are free for anyone to use, and demonstrate just how easy it is to bypass restrictions that governments seem to believe are the answer to the problem of piracy.
The party is concerned about the level of control that is exercised over internet access. Whether or not you are interested in making use of the Pirate Bay specifically, the fact that so many countries have implemented blocks is what the Pirate Party describes as "yet another sad step down the road towards the dystopic world imagined by George Orwell".
The party announced the availability of its DNS service in a post on its website:
Pirate Party are against censorship of the Internet. The major film companies have joined forces in a lawsuit and obtained the largest Internet providers in the country to block a number of websites. They do this by redirecting requests on its name servers. Pirate Party has therefore set up an alternative, unblocked nameserver in Norway, dns.piratpartiet.no, with address 185.56.187.149. It is open to all and does not store your IP address.
The site also provides detailed information about how to make use of the DNS server -- there are details for Mac, Windows, and Linux users, as well as information about how to set things up at router level.
Of course, you do not have to be in Norway to make use of the DNS service. Wherever you are in the world, you can change your settings to gain unfettered access to the internet.
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