If any of you have broadband from Eircom and are fond of filesharing, you might have noticed that the piratebay.org site has been blocked. Eircom have agreed to block sites that record companies claim help people to infringe copyright law on their music.
The solution is to use another torrent site or to simply use a proxy server to get to the site. I particularly like the aptly named www.hidemyass.com but there are plenty of them out there (google “proxy server”) just enter www.thepiratebay.org into the box on their site, and away you go. You’ll also need a bittorrent client such as azureus which is available as shareware.
Eircom are the only Irish ISP to agree to this pressure so far. Your other alternative is to change ISP. The others are cheaper anyway.
Have fun.