The Pirate Bay is once again wide open, thanks a ruling by an appeals court in the Netherlands that decreed Internet providers no longer have to block IP addresses associated with the site. The Hague Appeals Court reasoned that the required blocking was impossible to implement or enforce because users were able to use workarounds to access the site. The Pirate Bay is a P2P website that at one time was one of the world’s largest BitTorrent trackers, connecting users to music, movies and other content on other users’ PCs.
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Dutch Court Lets ISPs Flee Pirate Bay Battle
Posted by: Erika Morphy January 30, 2014 10:23 AMThe Pirate Bay is once again wide open, thanks a ruling by an appeals court in the Netherlands that decreed Internet providers no longer have to block IP addresses associated with the site. The Hague Appeals Court reasoned that the required blocking was impossible to implement or enforce because users were able to use workarounds to access the site. The Pirate Bay is a P2P website that at one time was one of the world’s largest BitTorrent trackers, connecting users to music, movies and other content on other users’ PCs.