More Blocking Orders Issued By Courts Against The Pirate Bay

Pirate Bay is facing another round of blockades from ISP’s in Europe. The Swedish website that hosts over four million torrents and is notorious for providing access to pirated and copy written material will now be blocked by the British ISP Talk Talk. The ISP is the latest company to shut down subscriber access to The Pirate Bay after a court order in April. The ISP will be joining a large group of UK ISPs like Virgin Media, Everything Everywhere, Sky Broadband, BE and O2 which have already blocked the infamous site. The only major ISP that has not blocked the site is British Telecom.

Users who try to access The Pirate Bay through a UK ISP that has banned the site get either a non existing location or a page that tells the user exactly why they are being denied access. Talk Talk sends its subscribers to the page for the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI).

The UK High Court injunction that is making all ISPs block The Pirate Bay is not the only action being taken in Europe. Recently the Helsinki District Court asked more ISPs to shut down access to the website. The flood gates to court orders to block access started after the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the IFPI won a lawsuit in Finland against the site. A local ISP, Elisa, was ordered to shut down access but it did not comply but was later forced to do so by another court order.

All this seems not to be over yet and the music industry group IFPI has filed another lawsuit against people who administer The Pirate Bay. IFPI wants the Helsinki District Court to force the admins to not only stop distributing content that they do not own but also pay the people who own them.

The Pirate Bay seems to have shrugged off these recent court orders and is telling its users how to get around the blocks. The website is doing it best live up to its slogan “The galaxy’s most resilient  BitTorrent site”