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Nearly two months after it went offline following a police raid in Sweden, torrent-indexing site The Pirate Bay is back online.

The comeback is hardly surprising. Following a period of complete unavailability, the site was resurrected in December, with an image of a phoenix replacing its standard pirate-ship logo. The Pirate Bay was not immediately functional, but it featured a timer indicating that the site would resume operations some time around Feb. 1.

SEE ALSO: The Pirate Bay cofounder: I don’t care if the site stays down

The Pirate Bay’s current owners have not yet made an official announcement about its return. However, a Saturday report from TorrentFreak said there may be some friction between former and current staff members, with some even planning to launch another version of the site.

Currently, The Pirate Bay is back, and appears to have the same functionality as before, though there are few torrents newer than Dec. 9, when the site was shut down.

The Pirate Bay’s recent downtime was one of of the longest in its history; the site has previously had numerous brushes with the law. Its original founders were sentenced to one year in prison for copyright violations in 2009, but The Pirate Bay remained online, and changed several top-level domains (TLDs) in the process.

Following the police raid on its servers in December, the site was unavailable for several weeks;previous and current staffers suggested it would not be coming back.

One of the people running The Pirate Bay, known by the pseudonym “Mr 10100100000,” later said that if the site did return, it would be “with a bang.”

The Pirate Bay’s archive had been publicly available since 2013, and during its latest downtime, several spinoffs of the site appeared. Fellow torrent site Isohunt created its own version, calledOld Pirate Bay, and offered $100,000 to developers who could help them develop the site.



http://gblweb.com/2015/02/01/the-pirate-bay-is-back-online-after-nearly-2-months-of-downtime/

In the last 10 days, China has been tightening its grip on the Internet, blocking several tools that allow users inside the country to escape and circumvent what’s popularly known as the “Great Firewall of China.”

Some popular Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, were the latest victims of the sophisticated Chinese Internet censorship system, with several individuals and small businesses reportedly unable to use them in the last few days to connect to censored websites, or to use other blocked services like Gmail, Flickr or Twitter.

SEE ALSO: Can an Android App Defeat China’s Internet Censors?

But not all hope is lost for Chinese users trying to get around the Great Firewall.

“It’s wrong to report that all the VPNs have been shut down, and that all the circumvention tools have been shut down,” Charlie Smith, one of the founders of the Internet censorship watchdogGreatFire, told Mashable.

In fact, the block has affected only popular, commercial VPNs such as Astrill, StrongVPN andGolden Frog.



Other alternative, less widespread tools, such as Psiphon, Lantern, Tor, and other VPN services, in fact, remain active.

Moreover, on Friday, two of the affected VPNs announced that they were able to fight back and restore their services, at least partially.

Golden Frog announced it in a blog post, while StrongVPN confirmed it to Mashable via email.

Yet, China’s new crackdown on circumvention tools is almost unprecedented, or at least the worst since 2012, according to Bill Bishop, an American who lives in Beijing and is the editor of the influential Sinocism newsletter.

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Their vision is to create effectively one world, two Internets
Their vision is to create effectively one world, two Internets“, Bishop told Mashable, referring to the Chinese government, “where they have the Chinese Internet and they have the rest of the world. There are still links but they seem to be squeezing them tighter and tighter.”

China seemed to confirm the crackdown on Tuesday, when Wen Ku, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that China “needs new methods to tackle new problems,” and that the “development of the Internet has to be in accordance with Chinese laws,” according to the government’s People’s Daily.

China has always been very aggressive in trying to control the Internet (sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have long been unavailable), but this crackdown on VPNs is the latest episode in a recent spike in online censorship and surveillance.

In the last few months, China has implemented several measures to block Google services.

Activists and cybersecurity experts have accused the government of being behind intrusive cyberattacks designed to surveil citizens using Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple services. The government has always denied all accusations.

Yet, the biggest question after China’s block on VPNs is: why now?

China has always had the ability to block at least some VPN traffic, according to experts consulted by Mashable, so the reasons behind this latest crackdown might be political. In fact, ever since Lu Wei, China’s Internet czar, rose to power, the country has ramped up its censorship capabilities.

President “Xi Jinping says ‘we have to take measures to control the Internet,’ and this guy is taking those measures,” Smith said. “This guy has really got the power, and is moving forward to take control of everything about China’s Internet.”

The Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. did not respond to Mashable‘s request for comment.

For Bishop, the VPNs that got blocked perhaps became too popular among Chinese users, and the government might have felt it had to step in.

Astrill, a service that suffered disruptions, seemed to mock China’s censorship system just last week.



It’s unclear if this contributed to China disrupting Astrill’s service, but the tweets have since been removed. Astrill did not respond to a request for comment.

Perhaps, this was all just a warning to VPNs operating in China, just a way for the Chinese government to assert its power and show that, if they want, they can block some of these services. Tools like Psiphon and Lantern were perhaps spared by obfuscation techniques, which makes it harder for censors to detect the use of these tools.

Other VPNs, if they haven’t already, will have to follow suit in a seemingly never-ending cat and mouse game.

http://gblweb.com/2015/02/01/china-tightens-grip-on-the-internet-but-it-didnt-block-all-the-tools-to-get-around-censorship/