After a court recently ruled that UK ISPs must filter subscriber access to the Pirate Bay, Virgin Media was the first ISP out of the gate to comply. The filters are DNS-based, so getting around them isn't much of a big deal for users -- who simply have to either switch their DNS provider to a third party (like OpenDNS or Google), or use a VPN. Virgin Media's move apparently gained the ire of the hacking collective Anonymous, which took Virgin's primary website offline for most of yesterday with a DDoS.

For their part, the Pirate Bay posted to Facebook saying the group doesn't condone the move as it's simply another form of censorship:

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We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us. So don't fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship. If you want to help; start a tracker, arrange a manifestation, join or start a pirate party, teach your friends the art of bittorrent, set up a proxy, write your political representatives, develop a new p2p protocol, print some pro piracy posters and decorate your town with, support our promo bay artists or just be a nice person and give your mom a call to tell her you love her.

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