Blocking the Piratebay seems the latest hobby of legislators around Europe. In the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland, the Piratebay has to be blocked by ISPs. Blocking is done by removing the Piratebay from the ISPs DNS system or by even blocking the IP addresses the Piratebay is running on. Recently the Piratebay already showed it wasn’t impressed by that, by simply making the site available on another IP and by just increasing a number (from 194.71.107.80 to 194.71.107.81). However the internet has a shortage of these kind of IP addresses. The current IP address system is IPv4 and with ‘only’ 4 billion addresses available, these IPv4 addresses are running out. So the world is preparing to switch to IPv6 which has 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 unique IP addresses (yes, we couldn’t pronounce) and the Piratebay seemed to feel like getting a range of those. So, they now seem to have about 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 new IP addresses available. Good luck to those legislators in blocking those, although there is a chance that someday it won’t be a hassle for anti-piracy organisations to block one IP address, but getting entire ranges blocked. Till then, the Piratebay can be found on their IPv6 address at [2002:c247:6b96::1]
