Italian Court Rules ISPs Must Block Access To Pirate Bay

introt writes "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."

Comments

you know, I'm half Italian

[bmecoli]

And usually I'm proud of my heritage, but then after hearing this, I'm quite ashamed.

This is almost as bad as the Vatican. ;/

Re:Tech fail

[Dishevel]

Umm. Most people just install a client like bittorrent and then they search for something and click the link and the .tor file is associated already with their client which opens the .tor and starts the download. Maybe you like to have a more complicated setup but there are a crapload of idiots out there that can search for batman movie and start downloading via tor.