Rightsholders have wised up. Instead of just suing The Pirate Bay itself, they are now aggressively targeting proxy services under copyright law (specifically the Copyright Directive in the EU). Over the last six months, we have seen massive "proxy busts" where domains like thepiratebay.rocks or piratebay.live get seized and redirected to anti-piracy notices within 48 hours of launching.
If you are reading this, chances are you tried to click your bookmark for The Pirate Bay (TPB) today. Instead of the familiar black and white logo, you were probably met with a stark, grey screen: "This site has been blocked by your ISP." pirate bays proxy 2019
Welcome to the state of torrenting in 2019. Rightsholders have wised up
Despite being raided, sold, resurrected, and blocked by virtually every major Internet Service Provider from London to Sydney, The Pirate Bay refuses to die. But as the blocks get more sophisticated (looking at you, UK’s High Court and Australia’s Federal Court), the methods to bypass them have become the new normal. If you are reading this, chances are you
DPI looks inside the packet data. If a proxy is just forwarding TPB data, DPI recognizes the pattern and throttles or blocks the connection. This means "transparent proxies" are dying. The only proxies that work in late 2019 are "obfuscating proxies" that scramble the traffic to look like Google Maps traffic. If you are still searching for "Pirate Bay proxy list 2019" on Reddit, you are playing whack-a-mole. By the time you click the third link, the first two will be dead.