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China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites

Date: November 8, 2008

Author: Ernesto

QUOTE: China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked.

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