Popular BitTorrent Sites Unavailable in China, DNS Blamed
BitTorrent users in China were
unable to reach popular sites such as Mininova or The Pirate Bay for a couple of days, instead being redirected to a Chinese search engine. The sites are reachable now and the outage was blamed on a DNS error, which isn’t widely believed since the issue only affected certain P2P sites.
Mininova co-founder Niek, whose domain was also redirected to Baidu told TorrentFreak: “We had the questionable honor of joining Wikipedia and YouTube on the list of websites that (at some point) were censored in China.”