Websites blocked in Belgium

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Main article: Internet censorship in Belgium

The precise number of websites blocked in Belgium is unknown. Blocking may vary from one Internet Service Provider (ISP) to another with some sites blocked by some ISPs and not by others.

Site blocks in Belgium are at this moment only based on DNS Hijacking and can be trivially circumvented using third party DNS public servers, Tor, the Pirate Browser version of Tor, VPNs, site specific and general web proxies, and other circumvention techniques.

Verification

There is no official complete register of blocked sites. Blocked content includes:

  • Court orders (mainly for copyright issues)
  • Unilateral blocking (some websites have been reported as being blocked without any known court order on the sole initiative of certain ISPs)
  • Gambling regulations (Belgian gambling laws requires a Gambling business to have a local physical gambling point and proper license in order to provide online gambling)[1]

The only reported technique used by Belgian ISPs to block such websites is DNS Hijacking where requests toward the blocked websites would be redirected to a government owned web page: the "StopPage".[2 1][2]

Court-ordered blocked websites

These are the sites explicitly listed and blocked by court cases in Belgium.

Site name

Domain or URL

Type of site

Reason

ISPs in Court Case

Blocked By[3]

Start date

Resolution date
The Pirate Bay
  • thepiratebay.se
  • thepiratebay.org
  • thepiratebay.net
  • thepiratebay.com
  • thepiratebay.nu
  • piratebay.org
  • piratebay.net
  • piratebay.se
  • piratebay.no
  • jimkeyser.se
  • ripthepiratebay.com
 Torrent Indexer Copyright[4]
  • Proximus
  • Telenet
  • Numericable[1 1]
  • Mobistar[1 1]
  • Voo
 November 2011[4][5][6][7]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 It is important to note that despite the fact that only two ISPs were actually concerned in this court order, many other ISPs have implemented the same blocking without any specific court order. It is not fully known which ISPs decided to enforce this ruling or not.

Unilaterally blocked websites

These are the sites blocked by some ISPs in Belgium without any known related court-order. It is believed that these blockings are the result of pressure by the Belgian Anti-piracy Federation (BAF)[2 2] who threatened ISPs of heavy legal fees should they not comply with their request.[8][9][10][11] The list of ISPs below is probably incomplete as each ISP can decide individually on the matter.

Case name

Domain or URL

Type of site

Reason

Blocked by[3]

Start date

Resolution date
The Pirate Bay
  • thepiratebay.se
  • depiraatbaai.be
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Numericable
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 December 2011[12]
IsoHunt
  • isohunt.com
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Numericable
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 unknown[citation needed] Site moved to new domain in

October 2013[13]
KickAssTorrents
  • kat.ph
  • kickass.to
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Numericable
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 August 2013[14]
BitSnoop
  • bitsnoop.com
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 August 2013[14]
ExtraTorrent
  • extratorrent.cc
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 August 2013[14]
h33t
  • h33t.com
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Numericable
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 August 2013[14] Site moved to new domain in

December 2013[15]
monova
  • monova.org
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 unknown[citation needed]
TorrentReactor
  • torrentreactor.net
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Numericable
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 unknown[citation needed]
TorrentHound
  • torrenthound.com
 Torrent Indexer Copyright
  • Proximus
  • Mobistar
  • Telenet
  • Voo
 unknown[citation needed]
YifySubtitles
  • yifysubtitles.com
 Movie Subtitles Copyright
  • Proximus
 Februari 2016

Gambling regulations blocked websites

The list of blocked gambling websites is the only official publicly available and maintained blocklist in Belgium. The list is available on the official Belgian Gaming Commission website.[16][2 3]

Links

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ anti-piracy.be
  3. ↑ gamingcommission.be

References

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  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Source : DNS Lookups on ISP DNS Servers
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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