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The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy, a second time

After first being blocked in 2008, an Italian court has once again ruled that ISPs in the nation must block access to the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, leaving millions of users without access to one of the most popular sites on the planet.

In the original case, after an appeal by the Pirate Bay, the Court of Bergamo ruled that foreign websites cannot be blocked over alleged copyright infringement. Fast forward until today and the Supreme Court has ruled that ISPs can indeed be forced to block torrent sites, even if they are foreign-based.



The ruling says any site that offers torrent links to connect to copyrighted material is "engaging in criminal activity," says TF.

Of course there are proxies, and thousands of other smaller sites that are not yet blocked, so it is not as if Italian torrent fans are in complete trouble.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 8 Feb 2010 14:31

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• beanos66

  Quote:leaving millions of users with access to one of the most popular sites on the planet. methinks should read, leaving millions of users !without! access to one of the most popular sites on the planet.
  
  Way to go silvio, abuse the legal system to protect your own wallet

  8.2.2010 15:24 #1

• lxfactor

  i read that too i was like.. umm lol

  8.2.2010 15:28 #2

• DVDBack23

  Typo corrected, now back on topic :P

  8.2.2010 15:51 #3

• jos22

  so people still actually use the pirate bay

  8.2.2010 18:20 #4

• Josipher

  i just use whatever torrentz.com gives me..

  8.2.2010 22:21 #5

• DDR4life

  Says The Pirate Bay to the opposition, "I remember your Gom Jabbar, now you'll remember mine. Try looking into that place you dare block. You'll find me there, staring back at you!"
  
  
  
  lol

  9.2.2010 01:01 #6

• domie

  I must be out of touch with things - I thought TPB had been consigned to history after the court reversal and the charade of trying to sell it off to that idiot with no money. Is it still going ?

  9.2.2010 04:38 #7

• samus250

  Originally posted by domie: I must be out of touch with things - I thought TPB had been consigned to history after the court reversal and the charade of trying to sell it off to that idiot with no money. Is it still going ?
  Yeah, The Pirate Bay is still going and is stronger than ever... though they have no trackers now, they rely solely on other public trackers, DHT and Peer Exchange.

  9.2.2010 09:12 #8

• PRCOQUI

  Josipher you can use one or the best
  
  demonoid.com

  9.2.2010 11:43 #9

• Xplorer4

  Originally posted by PRCOQUI: Josipher you can use one or the best
  
  demonoid.com
  lol demonoid isnt all that special. Its good for hard to find stuff some of the time but otherwise it doesnt really offer anything thats not available elsewhere.

  10.2.2010 03:36 #10

• SalmonSal

  So, when will they start blocking Google then?...............oh, right.

  10.2.2010 14:21 #11

• quinta

  Italian justice has NOT BLOCKED TPB AGAIN
  
  The supreme court ruled that requiring ISPs to "inhibit" access to TPB is not against the law and sent the trial back to a lower level court. and there we are. this court has not ruled. (at least so far).
  
  this is the reason why, if you read italian websites, they all write in conditional: "eventually could be blocked again"
  
  and, BTW, TPB is obviously still accessible

  10.2.2010 17:52 #12

• beanos66

  Originally posted by PRCOQUI: Josipher you can use one or the best
  
  demonoid.comShush, don't tell everybody. We don't want riaa finding out

  11.2.2010 06:13 #13

• Hannes84

  Originally posted by quinta: Italian justice has NOT BLOCKED TPB AGAIN
  
  The supreme court ruled that requiring ISPs to "inhibit" access to TPB is not against the law and sent the trial back to a lower level court. and there we are. this court has not ruled. (at least so far).
  
  this is the reason why, if you read italian websites, they all write in conditional: "eventually could be blocked again"
  
  and, BTW, TPB is obviously still accessible
  That's bull. I live in Italy, using Telecom Italia as my service provider and The Pirate Bay has been blocked completely. Using a proxy is helpful though.

  12.2.2010 12:31 #14

• quinta

  Quote:
  That's bull. I live in Italy, using Telecom Italia as my service provider and The Pirate Bay has been blocked completely. Using a proxy is helpful though.
  Milan is the second largest city in Italy and that's not spanish..
  
  
  
  

  12.2.2010 13:20 #15

• Hannes84

  Quote:Quote:
  That's bull. I live in Italy, using Telecom Italia as my service provider and The Pirate Bay has been blocked completely. Using a proxy is helpful though.
  Milan is the second largest city in Italy and that's not spanish..
  
  
  
  
  I don't know what your service provider is, but I am using the largest Italian telecompany (Telecom Italia) and they certainly have blocked The Pirate Bay, which is surprising as they're the ones who refused to do it before. I can access TPB via proxy but not without.

  13.2.2010 02:58 #16

• quinta

  Quote:
  I don't know what your service provider is, but I am using the largest Italian telecompany (Telecom Italia) and they certainly have blocked The Pirate Bay, which is surprising as they're the ones who refused to do it before. I can access TPB via proxy but not without.
  I am using Telecom Italia in Milan.

  13.2.2010 03:21 #17

• Hannes84

  Quote:Quote:
  I don't know what your service provider is, but I am using the largest Italian telecompany (Telecom Italia) and they certainly have blocked The Pirate Bay, which is surprising as they're the ones who refused to do it before. I can access TPB via proxy but not without.
  I am using Telecom Italia in Milan.
  That's very hard to believe. I've tried both Firefox and Internet Explorer and neither of them allow me to go to Pirate Bay. But I suppose....

  13.2.2010 07:27 #18

• quinta

  Quote:Quote:Quote:
  I don't know what your service provider is, but I am using the largest Italian telecompany (Telecom Italia) and they certainly have blocked The Pirate Bay, which is surprising as they're the ones who refused to do it before. I can access TPB via proxy but not without.
  I am using Telecom Italia in Milan.
  That's very hard to believe. I've tried both Firefox and Internet Explorer and neither of them allow me to go to Pirate Bay. But I suppose....
  Actually I'm using three different ISPs in two offices and home; just one of them has directed the DNS entry to a fake server with a web page saying that "access to TPB has been inhibited", a long ago, and never rolled back.
  The workaround is just using another DNS.

  13.2.2010 08:24 #19

• Tarsellis

  Mussolini would be so proud of our current Italy!

  19.2.2010 15:54 #20

• jerrie (unverified)

  too bad ppl r so stupid nowadays. how can few decide the needs of many? how can few control the masses? this should be public execution GTFO and give them the boot

  11.8.2010 05:16 #21