Great.
That's saved me having to search around for it. Thanks.
KickassTorrents clearly thought Somalia would be a good place to set up shop, given the ungovernable country's long association with pirates. But just two months after the hugely popular file-sharing site shifted from its kickass.to address to kickass.so, the team has had to go back to its previous domain – after kickass.so …
Only applies to the four biggest ISPs; BT, TalkTalk, Sky and Virgin Media.
Use a small obscure one and you can browse anything to your hearts content, as long as it's not on the IWF's 'pedo' blacklist that is.
I really wouldn't want to see the RIAA use the IWF as a means to combat copyright infringement as well as pedophilia though, just because they have approx 98% ISP coverage throughout the UK.
Meanwhile, in the real world, a fall of snow caused our satelite DVR to screw up the wife's recording of Broadchurch S02E04, which was fixed by a google for the bittorrent of it (via kickass.to, AFAIR.) In 2 minutes we could start watching. Very convenient, I thought, and the first time I've used BT in months. (Specially since NetFlix arrived.)
Similarly, I managed to miss the first 2 episodes of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, so watched them both via YouTube.
I'm in Europe so iPlayer (and ITV's equivalent) is forbidden to me. We do actually have BBC and ITV channels available via our cable TV provider, but have no DVR functionality configured for it.
So, am I a pirate? Or a terrorist?
Seriously though, I can go to google, type in kickass proxy and find at least a handful of working, usable links. At what point do they step back, take a look at all the expense, time and effort it takes to block these sites, vs the cost of media delivery companies just giving people what they want, when they want it.
Iplayer and even 4oD allow you to download some programs to your device for offline viewing, I don't see why all tv cannot be like this for a nominal fee, something akin to ohh, I don't know, the tv license fee we all pay?
I'll get me coat, it's the one with that book written by Abbie Hoffman in the pocket.