Irish SOPA Used To Block Pirate Bay Access

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:05AM from the whack-a-mole dept.

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Ireland's own SOPA Act has finally struck home. Today, the Irish High Court ordered all ISPs to begin censoring the The Pirate Bay. After earlier attempts were struck down, this case was brought by EMI, Sony, Warner Music and Universal music under new copyright laws brought in last year. This follows the largest ISP Eircom already having voluntarily blocked the Pirate Bay after previous legal action. Despite some early indications that some ISPs would appeal the decision, it now appears that like Eircom, they have quietly given up. Pity; IT was one of the few industries Ireland was getting right."

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Re:Making it harder to pirate? by nabsltd · 2013-06-12 05:12 · Score: 4, Informative

You can only "download" web pages and magnet links from piratebay now. Not even torrent files are available, other then linked from torcache.net.
TBP still serves torrent files for torrents that don't meet the minimum requirements for seeder and leecher count. Check a link and you will see that the file comes from a .piratebay.sx domain. It's also easy to show that it's not coming from torcache, as there are torrent files available on TPB that aren't on torcache.
I can't recall the exact numbers used as thresholds, but it's about a total of 10 peers.