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The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-giving-p2p-the-boot dept.

imhassan tips us to news that The Pirate Bay has been blocked in Italy. Other attempts to block the popular P2P site have been somewhat less than successful. From TorrentFreak: "Pirate Bay's IPs and the domain name are inaccessible, as they are blocked by ISPs all over the country. Whether these blocks will be very effective, however, is doubtful, since The Pirate Bay has already announced several countermeasures. An insider working at an Internet provider in Italy told TorrentFreak that all the relevant large access ISPs in Italy have complied with the request to block the popular BitTorrent tracker, which was sent out yesterday. Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same prosecutor who is responsible for the Pirate Bay block."

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  1. Pirates blocked in Italy?!?! by BitterOldGUy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was it the mafia? I heard that the mafia doesn't like pirates or fascists for that matter.

    1. Re:Pirates blocked in Italy?!?! by Yvan256 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or ninjas.

    2. Re:Pirates blocked in Italy?!?! by ThePengwin · · Score: 2, Funny

      They must really hate fascist pirate ninjas then

  2. Pirate Bay by Oscar+Wilder · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only thing worse than blocking Pirate Bay is not blocking Pirate Bay.

  3. Re:"web of trust" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeh, 7 days to everybody reading this, but Kevin Bacon will get it in 6, the bastard.

  4. Re:at least TPB has a sense of humor about it by exley · · Score: 2, Funny

    Our fine Italian friends can still access TPB at labaia.org.

    Except for the people who read that as "labia.org" and end up someplace completely different, although maybe not entirely disappointing to them...

  5. Re:at least TPB has a sense of humor about it by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I went to labia.com and labia.org and I was disappointed both times.

    Both are parked domains.

    I do this difficult task so you don't have to.

    --
    BMO

  6. Re:Common Carrier? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nancy Reagan?