There was a rush of stories this morning about how Comcast was blocking access to The Pirate Bay website, which was followed by cries of commendation.
Well it turns out that everyone was getting their panties all twisted up for no reason. Except the only problem was that Comcast wasn’t blocking access as told to TorrentFreak
This morning we wrote an article on the issue, mentioning that The Pirate Bay was trying to find the origin of the problem.
The report didn’t go unnoticed by Comcast either. In a response to the issue Jason Livingood, Executive Director Internet Systems Engineering at Comcast, told TorrentFreak: “Please note that we do not block websites and we are NOT blocking The Pirate Bay.”
Not only wasn’t Comcast blocking The Pirate Bay but it turns out that they put out a call to the people running the site to offer their help in tracking down exactly what was the problem.
Comcast has reached out to The Pirate Bay and set aside resources in case the BitTorrent site needs it. “I can have our engineers work directly with them to assist,” Jason Livingood told TorrentFreak.
So much for Comcast being the bad guy here for a change. They actually turned out to be extremely helpful and along with The Pirate Bay traced the problem to one of the Tier1 network providers.
Comcast reached out to Serious Tubes Networks, who deliver transit to The Pirate Bay, and they were able to correct the issue.
“Comcast emailed our NOC about their users complaining about not reaching The Pirate Bay. We resolved the issue and TPB can now be reached from ComCast,” the CEO of Serious Tubes Networks told TorrentFreak.
Be careful there or you’ll be damaging you rep of being a heartless money grubbing corp.
