PirateBay blocked in Italy, pirates fight back
Written on 10th August 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
TorrentFreak reports that the PirateBay has been blocked by all major Italian ISP’s who forced to do so due to a court order. The deputy public prosecutor who asked for the PirateBay block is on a mission, as this is his second success in two weeks. He managed to shut down the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, on July 29th.
The pirates fight back though, they want all Italians to have access to their torrent service. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunder told TorrentFreak that they “are working on setting up a really annoying system for them to filter. “Some of the ISPs decided to nullroute – so we changed IP so it works for them now some other decided to block the domain name so we added labaia.org, which means “the bay” in Italian.”
In a blog post, Sunder calls Italy a “fascist state” predicts that they’ll win the fight: “We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.”
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