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Journal Journal: Where are the ssl access to the torrent search engines? 1

For the past couple of years ISPs have been putting more and more pressure on the bittorrent protocal and the search engines that are used to index the torrents. In some case it would have been due to copyright pressure, but in most cases it has been there way to reduce the amount of bandwidth used on there networks. Since the beginning of September of this year, Etisalat, the internet service provider of the united arab emirates has been blocking access to all of the known and reputable torrent search engines. So since this time it has been impossible to download the torrent files required to beginning downloads. It is also impossible for the average computer user to bypass there proxy, because they have been working to disable all the possible methods. Two years ago when ISPs first started to use traffic shaping on bittorrent traffic most client started to offer the option to encrypt data between peers to circumvent the restrictions that they were enforcing. Where security has become so important and with this new attempt by providers to block access to the search engines I find it quite strange that none of them have enabled a secure way to access there websites.

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