![]() ![]() Ranked 890 worldwide by Alexa, surprisingly YIFI Torrents has somehow managed to remain unblocked in the UK. Later we’ll take a look at one or two other interesting findings. We used Alexa ranks to put them in general order, which is sufficient for this exercise. To find out what kind of a dent these actions have had on accessibility, TorrentFreak took a look at the list of top 30 torrent sites in the world to see which ones remain unblocked in the UK. Furthermore, the MPA are slowly but surely taking out the top streaming sites while the BPI concentrates on some of the big MP3 download portals. Currently none of the top 10 torrent sites listed in our 2013 chart are available by direct means (they are through a VPN service). ![]() Users of BitTorrent, streaming and other file-sharing sites in the UK are soon going to have to get used to a new reality. Instead, the major studios and recording labels have zoomed in on Europe – the UK in particular – and between them have had close to 30 sites blocked by the country’s major ISPs. Interestingly this is being driven by United States-based companies yet no sites have yet been blocked in their homeland. While Hollywood and the music industry are currently working hard to have dozens of millions of infringing links removed from Google, they are increasingly trying to cut off users’ access to those links by way of website censorship.
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