China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites
Found on TorrentFreak on Saturday, 08 November 2008
Several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked.
People in the Beijing area who attempted to access the sites were promptly redirecting to Baidu, China's Google.
According to some sources, there was never an attempt to censor the BitTorrent sites, claiming that a DNS error cause the problems. This doesn't seem very plausible though, as the diversions almost exclusively involved P2P related sites, which are hosted right across the globe.
That's another way to get traffic. The hijacks may sound harsh at first, but then, it's China we're talking about. You can expect anything from that censorship regime. They get away with all that easily because they don't care about political pressure and financial pressure won't work; also, investors close their eyes and bend over to get cheap slaves in China.