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Reports: Demonoid Blocking Countries

By enigmax
on June 20, 2008
C: 307

According to an ever increasing wave of emails to TorrentFreak, it appears that residents of at least two countries can no longer access Demonoid. Not only are users from the Netherlands complaining they cannot access the site but now it's the turn of Brazilian BitTorrent fans to wonder why they've…

BREIN Disconnects The Pirate Bay, For Now

By Ernesto
on October 5, 2009
C: 278

Last Friday The Pirate Bay moved to Ukraine after its Swedish bandwidth supplier was forced to stop servicing the tracker. In the new setup, traffic to TPB is routed through The Netherlands, but anti-piracy outfit BREIN has now asked ISP NForce to stop handling TPB's traffic. As a result the…

Censoring The Pirate Bay is Futile, ISPs Reveal

By Ernesto
on July 11, 2012
C: 220

All around the world the copyright lobby is pushing for increased censorship of 'pirate' websites, The Pirate Bay in particular. Thus far this has resulted in court-ordered blockades in several countries including the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. However, in recent months evidence has started to stack up showing that…

The Pirate Bay Ordered To Close In The Netherlands

By Ernesto
on July 30, 2009
C: 185

The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has won its court case against The Pirate Bay. The Amsterdam court today ruled that the site must cease all operations in The Netherlands within 10 days, or else pay penalties of 30,000 euros ($42,300) a person, per day.