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List of domains censored by German ISPs

List of domains censored by German ISPs

elcapitan

Comments (127)

  • elcapitan
    39c3 talk about this tomorrow (in German, but usually available with English translation) https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/...
  • sccxy
    So it is a collection of the best pirate sites?
  • Semaphor
    For those wondering: it's DNS blocks, so only affecting those using ISP DNS.
  • maoxiaoke
    We once laughed at China for building a wall — and now we’ve built our own
  • kn100
    What a handy list the Germans have prepared
  • debesyla
    And lithuanian list is here: https://www.nksc.lt/vasaris.html (in lithuanian). Mostly phishing sites, but includes fun piracy portals too.Content piracy specific, mostly movies, blocked by public broadcaster orders: https://www.nksc.lt/doc/vasaris/siena-lrtk.txt, https://www.nksc.lt/doc/vasaris/siena-lrtk-2.txt, https://www.nksc.lt/doc/vasaris/siena-lrtk-3.txt
  • leonwip
    But it is not legally required, and at least my smaller German ISP doesn’t seem to care.
  • croisillon
  • nonethewiser
    So there are only 295 domains censored? Seems like a lot of them of streaming sights breaking copyright/license agreements. Has to be a small fraction of those such sites alone.
  • lukan
    Ah yes, we need to forcefully protect our citiziens from all the evils of the internet: rapists, pedophiles, terrorists ... oh wait, this is just about copyright stuff.Seriously, thanks for updating that list and the nice instructions to circumvent. (3 clicks with firefox, without the need to install anything or type in anything by hand)
  • jug
    Honestly makes it look like legislation with "sponsorship" from the film industry. I had expected much shadier stuff or those overrun with malware to protect users, not like 90% illicit streaming.
  • zoklet-enjoyer
    This reminds me of a screenshot I saw where someone told chatgpt they stumbled upon a piracy website and wanted a list of other websites to avoid hahaha
  • kuon
    Nice, a list of torrent sites!
  • ivanjermakov
    I love Streisand effect.
  • on_the_train
    I know a few more, for example demonoid. This list is just a sunset. Inb4 "actually it's not Germany censoring. It's the ISPs"
  • croisillon
    related:December 2024, 31 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457712
  • andsoitis
    buffstreams.sx wasn’t what I hoped for.
  • lacoolj
    Interesting they went through the trouble of blocking specific subdomains rather than just blanketing the entire domains for all the "www*." at the end of the listAnd yet, the entire beginning of the list, no subdomains listed - so are subdomains for them allowed (unless specifically blocked here)?
  • diego_moita
    Being German, is not surprising so many are sites with football games (i.e. the game Americans call "soccer").
  • jstummbillig
    And now I am really interested in what Anna might have in that archive of her's
  • wltr
    I have never visited these kino domains, but I assume that’s just some piracy entity. Yet it’s quite impressive how many various domain names they bought! What for? Is it to avoid those blocks? Or is there any more reasons?
  • tyiz
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  • lifestyleguru
    Germans are mostly chill but if you start torrenting copyrighed content or even watching illegal streaming they will eat your face and drink your warm blood.
  • nik282000
    Anna's Archive and Sci-Hub. So despite their facade the German government is just as draconian as the US.