Bypassing Torrent Block

Can't seem to access your favourite torrent sites lately? Getting an error page that says "Access to this website has been disabled"? That's your tax dollars at work. (Sort of.)

As requested by Foxtel and Village Roadshow, the Australian Federal Court has ordered the major ISPs (Telstra, Optus, iiNet, Dodo, TPG, etc.) to block access to 5 torrent sites, specifically:

• The Pirate Bay
• Torrentz
• TorrentHound (I thought this has already been shut down?)
• IsoHunt, and
• SolarMovie

From what I've read, Foxtel and Village Roadshow will have to pay the ISPs $50 for every domain that is blocked. Any new domains that they want blocked will have to go through the courts.

Based on my experience, Telstra and Optus are using DNS blocking. Simplest workaround is to use another DNS server, instead of your ISP's. Change your WiFi/Ethernet connection's DNS server configuration to point to for example, Google's DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Problem solved.