At the end of last week, I went to a couple of my usual dorrent sites. (You know how it goes. I need my weekly download of “So you think You Can Dance”.) However, I was greeted by an error message. It was a lot of undecipherable garble. I thought the website might be down. So, I thought nothing of it. Websites go down, but they come back up.
Well, today. I go back to the website and it’s the same mess. I went to another website, and it was the same message. NOO. I tried a dorrent site that I never use. Gahhhhh! I went to the blog “dorrentfreak”. RAAAGGGEEEE! I see what you did there.
These websites didn’t go down, but these websites have been blocked from the network. And whose network would I be using? The School. You cheeky bastards.
I guess someone has noticed my bandwidth usage. I’m using a static IP, so they must know its coming from me. But rather than talking to me about it or asking me to lower bandwidth usage, they blocked me from visiting the websites. You think you’re *sooooo* smart.
My dorrent client will keep working. They can’t block that or keep it from connecting to peers. (unless they cut off my internet) But they think they’ve stopped me from downloading dorrent files from visiting the websites. lol
I WILL reduce the bandwidth I’m using. But, if I can’t use the school network to connect to these websites. I’ll just visit these sites through someone else’s network. You haven’t won.

Garrett Albright said,
June 29, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
Sure, they could block you from using a BitDorrent client. They just block the ports that dorrent clients typically use.
Are you sure it’s the school themselves that’s blocking and not their upstream ISP?