Update 10/12/14: The Pirate Bay has been knocked offline as the result of a massive police raid. It has always claimed that it is the most resilient site on the web, and The Pirate Bay placeholder currently residing on a Costa Rican domain suggests it may be back online soon. In the meantime you can follow the advice below for accessing alternative torrent sites to The Pirate Bay.
Well this is awkward. Here at PC Advisor we genuinely don't advocate the use of torrent sites to download and share copyright content. In fact, as the owner and producer of digital magazines that are regularly ripped off and shared via such sites, we actively disagree with such activity. But we also believe in the freedom of the internet, we're here to provide independent and objective information and, well, you're grown ups. You can make your own decisions as to the legality and morality of your actions, as well as the inherent security risks. And there are legitimate uses of torrent sites anyway.
So here's how to access torrent sites in the UK, even now that your ISP has in all likelihood blocked you from doing so.
How to use a torrent site in the UK. How to access The Pirate Bay in the UK
The principle is simple: you need to create a virtual private network. A VPN enables a computer to send and receive data across shared or public networks like the internet as if it were directly connected to a private network. You get the functionality, security and management policies of a private network via a virtual point-to-point connection. Most importantly in this case, a VPN creates a virtual tunnel between you and the sites and services you need to access, which means the ISP doesn't know who or indeed where you are, so you won't be blocked off from sites you wish to access.
Access blocked The Pirate Bay - access torrent sites: with Opera
The simplest way of doing this is to use Opera's Turbo mode. This is intended to speed up your browsing, but it does so by re-routing all your web pages through Oper's own speedy servers. In effect this creates a VPN. We've heard that it helps bypass the ISP blocking for some torrent sites.
Simply install the . Find the Opera Turbo icon on the lower left of the screen, on the left side of the status bar. Hover this icon, and it says "Opera Turbo Off". Click on it, and Opera Turbo is enabled. The icon turns blue, and each time a page is loaded, information is displayed about the network savings.
Access blocked The Pirate Bay - access torrent sites: with PirateBrowser
Another simple way of using a VPN is to install the . It's just a modified version of Firefox, and it works in a similar way to Opera Turbo. Just be careful from where you download PirateBrowser.
Access blocked The Pirate Bay - access torrent sites: use a VPN service
Finally, if these options don't work you need to take the marginally more complicated approach of using a VPN service. We explain how to do so in this article:
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