Comment by the_biot
4 years ago
> FYI: Some torrent search engines are blocked by ISPs in Europe, at the DNS level
And some of those now resolve the IP addresses of popular torrent sites, and block their IP addresses -- or rather, redirect connection attempts to a local anti-piracy page.
I know this to be the case for at least one ISP, but it's the biggest one in the country, and needless to say they have a video on demand business as well.
Forging DNS is one way to gain a "special" reputation for an ISP.
That doesn't matter in a duopoly. I expect the other half of the duopoly does the same thing, since they tend to move in lockstep.