June 25, 2007
Workaround anyone?
Okay, I'm in London. Residing in a University of London undergraduate hall. London is fun, I'm looking forward to classes, etc.
The LAN here apparently filters out .torrent files. This is annoying. The protocol itself isn't blocked--using uTorrent with torrents I've already downloaded seems to work provided I turn encryption on. But actually getting the torrent files not so much.
There has got to be a workaround for this. I tried using a proxy, but that doesn't seem to work. It's not an IP or even a content filter: it seems to be blocking the transmission of anything ending in .torrent. If I could download to a remote location and send it via zip, that'd be easy, but there really does have to be a way of fooling this thing.
Any ideas?
UPDATE: Nevermind. They do actually filter the protocol. The next time I loaded by browser I got a restriction message. So much for that.
Media corporations and their copyright restrictions be damned.
