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ekianjo on April 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

> This doesn't work for me, because http://thepiratebay.se is hardcoded in the code and that mirror is blocked in my location. I filed an issue.

Can't you fix that with an entry in your /etc/hosts file ?

regularfry on April 4, 2016 [–]

The way piratebay blocks are done round my neck of the woods, it's blocked at the IP layer, not just DNS. Hosts file hackery doesn't help.

ekianjo on April 5, 2016 | [–]

That sucks. You need a vpn then.

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