IsoHunt Stuck Behind China’s Great Firewall

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Tue, 03/16/2010 - 09:48

isohuntChina is no stranger to Internet censorship.

The country’s Great Firewall includes many well known sites, but up until now BitTorrent sites have never been blocked.

There was a short blocking incident two years ago when Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay were hijacked and redirected to the leading Chinese search engine, Baidu.

However, this issue was solved in a matter of days without an official explanation.

In the years that followed the Chinese government...


 

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