Various countries have blocked access to The Pirate Bay website

The following countries have blocked access to The Pirate Bay website:

Argentina

On 30 June 2014 the Argentine CNC (National Communications Commission) ordered the blocking of all The Pirate Bay domains. The order originated as product of a trial between the CAPIF (Argentinan Chamber of Phonograms Productors). With this order the CNC made the ISP block the IP blocks from 194.71.107.0 to 194.71.107.255 [sic], in which The Pirate Bay operates, and 12 different The Pirate Bay domains. [1] The website is still accessible with a wide variety of The Pirate Bay proxies listed on http://proxybay.info amongst others.

Australia

From June 2014, Australia have begun blocking The Pirate Bay.[2]

Austria

With effect from 11 August 2014, access to the Austria's The Pirate Bay is blocked.[3]

Belgium

Further information: Websites blocked in Belgium

After the founders of The Pirate Bay lost their 2009 trial, the Belgian Anti-Piracy Foundation (BAF) began arguing for two ISPs – Belgacom and Telenet – to block subscriber access to the site.[4] After year-long negotiations broke down, the result was legal action. In July 2010, the Antwerp Commercial Court ruled that neither ISP would have to block The Pirate Bay and went on to describe the notion of wholesale site blocking as "disproportionate". The ISPs said that it was not their position to decide which sites can and can not be accessed by their users. BAF accused them of providing a safe-haven to The Pirate Bay and filed an appeal.[4]

In October 2011, The Antwerp Court of Appeal overruled the decision of the Commercial Court and ordered Belgacom and Telenet to initiate DNS blockades of 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay within 14 days or face fines.[4] A Pirate Bay spokesperson said that this measure would only have the opposite effect, as there are many ways to circumvent it, commenting: "This will just give us more traffic, as always. Thanks for the free advertising."[5] The court order listed domain names to block, which all included "www." The equivalent URLs without "www." were also blocked by ISPs who wished to comply with the "spirit of the law", although the court order did not specify this.[4][6][7] NURPA, a nonprofit Belgian advocacy group which promotes and protects digital rights, freedom of expression, privacy and civil liberties, condemned the decision, saying: "The decision of the Antwerp Court of Appeal in the case against Belgacom BAF / Telenet sets a dangerous precedent for blocking of content by Internet service providers in Belgium. It is incompatible with the doctrine of proportionality advocated by the European Court of Human Rights."[8]

On 5 October 2011, The Pirate Bay registered the domain name depiraatbaai.be and baiedespirates.be, allowing Belgian users to access the site again, without using alternative DNS providers.[9]

On 18 April 2012, TorrentFreak reports that these two alternate domain names were also blocked, presumably added to the already existing court order.[10]

China

The site was blocked for a short time in November 2008 in the PRC with other BitTorrent sites,[11] and as of May 2012, remains inaccessible from mainland China while not being blocked in Hong Kong or Macau.[citation needed] As of November 2013 the site is accessible from mainland China.[citation needed]

Denmark

On 5 February 2008, the district court of Frederiksberg, Copenhagen ruled that one of Denmark's largest ISPs, DMT2-Tele2, was assisting its customers in copyright infringement by allowing the use of The Pirate Bay, and that they were to block access to the site.[12][13] Although the ISP had decided to challenge the verdict with support from the Danish Telecommunication Industries Association, they complied with it and blocked access to The Pirate Bay.[14] The Pirate Bay reacted by creating an alternate site with instructions on how to work around the block,[13] while the IFPI welcomed the block and encouraged other ISPs to follow suit.[15] The verdict was affirmed in the Eastern High Court of Denmark on 26 November 2008.[16][17] Following the court's decision, TDC, Denmark's largest ISP and owner of most of the cables, decided to block access to The Pirate Bay as a preventive measure.[18] Other Danish ISPs have commented that they would prefer not to intervene in their customers' communication, but have reluctantly put the block in effect in order to avoid fines.[19] Tele2's owner Telenor in turn appealed the high court verdict to the Supreme Court of Denmark, which in April 2009 accepted the case.[20] In May 2010, the Court denied the appeal and ordered Telenor to continue blocking.[21]

Finland

On 26 October 2011, the district court of Helsinki ruled that Elisa Oyj, one of the major internet service providers in Finland, must cease to provide copyrighted material from The Pirate Bay website by 18 November 2011 with the threat of a 100 000 € fine. On 9 January 2012, Elisa enabled DNS- and IP address–based ban to thepiratebay.org. Elisa has filed a complaint on the district court ruling.[citation needed]

France

On 19 May 2014, access to The Pirate Bay in France is currently blocked.[22]

Germany

On 13 May 2010, the Hamburg District Court ordered an injunction against CB3Rob Ltd & Co KG (Cyberbunker) and its operator, Mr. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, restraining them from connecting The Pirate Bay site to the Internet.[23] The injunction application was brought by the Motion Picture Association's member companies.

Greece

In Greece, from 15 February 2010 until late March 2010, Land Internet Service Provider Tellas/WIND Hellas blocked the site,[24] as a side effect of blocking applied in Italy, since apparently traffic is routed via the sister network Wind Italy servers. Unlike in Italy, in Greece it is not required by law for ISPs to restrict access to The Pirate Bay. Tellas/WIND Hellas managed to circumvent the problem as of 19 March 2010 so that access through the ISP is granted to their users, as well as to the rest of Greek internet users. Nevertheless, sometimes Tellas users still can't load the whole page or can't load the page at all.[citation needed]

India

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Airtel Broadband blocking TPB in May 2012

The Pirate Bay, and some other file-sharing and video streaming sites, were blocked in India, from 4 May 2012, under orders of the Department of Telecom (DoT) without any stated reasons or prior warnings. The block was due to a Madras High Court issued John Doe order taken by Chennai-based Copyright Lab.[25] The block was enforced by a number of ISPs, including Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tikona Digital Networks, Aircel, MTNL, BSNL and Vodafone. Some ISPs, such as You Broadband and Hathway, however, did not enforce the block. As of 19 May 2012, the site was still blocked with the error message "This website/URL has been blocked until further notice either pursuant to Court orders or on the Directions issued by the Department of Telecommunications". On 22 June 2012, the Madras High Court overturned the block, and clarified that only specific web addresses (or URLs) carrying the pirated content should be blocked and not the entire website. The decision restored access in India to video and file-sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay.[26][27][28]

In May 2012, the server of Reliance Communications was hacked by an anonymous group as a protest and to show the weakness of the security used to implement the block.[29] In July 2014, the site was blocked again due to infringement caused in the policies regarding FIFA broadcasting activities in countries other than India,Pakistan,Maldives,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh (the mentioned countries are those where it was supposed to broadcast several FIFA 2014 matches).

Indonesia

The Pirate Bay has been blocked by numerous internet ISPs in Indonesia. Internet Service Providers blocking it including the State-owned semi-private telecommunication Company of Indonesia (Telkom Indonesia) via its wholly owned ISP TelkomSpeedy and possibly some other ISPs. Internet users in Indonesia accessing this website (without proxy clients) will be redirected instead to another website named Internet Positif Internet Positif - Indonesia which is maintained by Kemkominfo (Ministry of Telecommunication and information of Indonesia) . The website itself stats that The pirate bay is blocked due to it having malicious contents such as pornography materials along with others. The website is still accessible with a wide variety of The Pirate Bay proxies like http://tpbnet.org.

Iran

File sharing and video streaming sites like The Pirate Bay, have been blocked in Iran.

Ireland

In January 2009, Irish ISP Eircom, Ireland's largest internet provider, was taken to court by the four large music labels EMI, Sony, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group in order to have the ISP monitor its customers and spot illegal file sharing.[30] After eight court days, the parties reached a settlement to introduce a graduated response policy to disconnect customers involved in copyright infringing activity.[31] The Irish Recorded Music Association continues to negotiate with other ISPs for a similar agreement.[32] On 21 February 2009, Eircom however declared that access to The Pirate Bay would soon be blocked altogether,[33] but retracted that on 24 February 2009, stating that they would not block without a court order.[30] Eircom reversed themselves again on 20 August 2009, announcing that they would block the website starting in September.[34][35] As of 1 September 2009 Eircom blocked access to The Pirate Bay, though it is still accessible via proxy servers, and still accessible in Ireland to subscribers of other ISP companies.

In a judgment given by Irish High Court Justice Peter Charleton, on 16 April 2010, ruled that the three strikes policy was legal and described the Pirate Bay as a "a site dedicated, on a weird ideological basis, to basically stealing the copyright owned by the plaintiffs in mainly musical works."[36] Following the ruling, the judge was subjected to threats that his life would be "wrecked by computer".[37][38]

In April 2011 the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice stated in a written opinion that from his view no ISP can be required to filter the Internet, and particularly not to enforce copyright law.[39] In November 2011 European Court of Justice mainly confirmed this opinion in a ruling.[40]

As of December 2011, a ruling against Eircom's "three strikes" anti-online filesharing system was passed due to privacy concerns with collecting of IP addresses.[41]

On 12 June 2013, EMI, Sony, Warner Music and Universal won a court order for UPC, Imagine, Vodafone, Digiweb, Hutchison 3G Ltd and Telefónica O2 Ireland Ltd. to block access to The Pirate Bay, and have 30 days to do so.[42]

Italy

In mid-2008, following the criminal charges raised in Sweden, the Italian Federation against Musical Piracy in Milan requested action in Italy. The deputy public prosecutor pursued the complaint in the Bergamo Court for Preliminary Investigations, which on 1 August 2008 decreed to block access from Italian ISPs to all Pirate Bay addresses.[43][44] The ruling was based on prevention of copyright violations by the site's users in Italian territory.[45] Once the block had been put in effect, The Pirate Bay responded on 10 August 2008 by posting instructions to work around the block and later by creating a separate site for Italians, but shortly afterwards the ISPs also blocked the alternate site.[46] Some ISPs had implemented the block by redirecting The Pirate Bay traffic to a site owned by the IFPI.[47] Italian security expert Matteo Flora suggested that by having the page redirected this way, IFPI could access Italian users' cookies and impersonate them on the official The Pirate Bay website.[48] Two Italian IT lawyers Giovanni Battista Gallus and Francesco Micozzi together with forensics expert Matteo Flora appealed to the Bergamo court, which reviewed the case and on 24 September 2008 quashed the original ruling.[49] The decision lifting the block was based on the applicability of the "preventive seizure" section of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, which cannot force actions on parties unrelated to the potential offence (ISPs to filter users' traffic).[45] With the April 2009 verdict in Sweden as a precedent, the Bergamo prosecutor appealed the Italian ruling in the Supreme Court of Cassation to reinstate the block.[50][51] In September 2009, the Supreme Court annulled the decision to overturn the block, and the case was again reviewed in the Bergamo court.[52] On 8 February 2010, the web site was blocked again by the Italian Supreme Court.[53] The website is still accessible with a wide variety of The Pirate Bay proxies like http://tpbnet.org.

Malaysia

In June 2011, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission ordered the blocking of The Pirate Bay along with several other file-hosting websites via a letter, dated 30 May, to all Malaysian ISPs for violating Section 41 of the Copyright Act 1987, which deals with pirated content.[54]

Netherlands

On 21 July 2005, the Amsterdam district court held a preliminary injunction hearing against the persons thought responsible for The Pirate Bay. The hearing followed a subpoena from the Dutch record industry trade association BREIN, who had an urgent complaint of intermediary copyright infringement. The defendants did not attend the hearing and hadn't arranged representation, so on 30 July 2009 the court entered an in absentia default judgment against them, accepting the complainants demands. It ruled that Neij, Kolmisoppi and Warg are "to stop and keep stopped the infringements on copyright and related rights of Stichting Brein (foundation Brain) in the Netherlands" within 9 August 2009, or face daily penalties of EUR 30,000, up to a maximum total of EUR 3,000,000. They were also ordered to pay the cost of the proceedings.[55][56][57][58] In a separate case handled at the same time, the court ordered the same fines for the expected new owner of The Pirate Bay, Global Gaming Factory X, were it not to stop the copyright infringements after the site's takeover.[59] According to BREIN director Tim Kuik, it is the first time a foreign website has been ordered to block access from the Netherlands.[60] The BREIN however waived the payment of damages for August and allowed the site to stay online until its expected change of owners at the end of August 2009.[61][62]

On 2 October 2009, The Pirate Bay's hosting services moved to Ukraine and their traffic was routed through The Netherlands, but BREIN contacted the ISP NForce and service was stopped. Subsequently The Pirate Bay moved their hosting location to a nuclear bunker owned by CyberBunker just outside Kloetinge in the south of the Netherlands.[63]

On 11 January 2012, two Dutch Internet service providers (Ziggo and XS4ALL) were ordered by a court in The Hague to disable lookups of The Pirate Bay's domain names and to block access to The Pirate Bay's IP addresses.[64]

On 31 January 2012, Ziggo and XS4ALL started blocking The Pirate Bay. Pending the results of the appeal they needed to comply the court order.[citation needed] On 10 May 2012, five more ISPs were ordered to block the site (specifically UPC, KPN, T-Mobile, Tele 2 and Telfort). After a complaint by BREIN, a court in The Hague ordered the Pirate Party of the Netherlands to stop publicizing ways to circumvent the block.[65] This included linking to a proxy server being offered by the Pirate Party of the Netherlands, and the Party claimed that it was also legally prevented from giving a link to the Tor project.[66]

On 28 January 2014, The Court of Appeal in The Hague judged that the ongoing blockade was ineffective and, in addition, easy to circumvent, and decided that Ziggo and XS4ALL were no longer required to block access to The Pirate Bay.[67][68]

Norway

Asker and Bærum District Court rejected demands from the recording artists' copyright organisation TONO against Norway's largest internet provider, Telenor, to have The Pirate Bay blocked. In a court ruling on 6 November 2009 the court stated that in today's society it would be unnatural to demand of a private company that it should make judgments on whether a website complied with the law, since making such judgments is considered the responsibility of the authorities.[69][70]

Portugal

The Pirate Bay was blocked in Portugal from 26 September 2013.[71]

Russia

The Pirate Bay was blocked in Russia from 11 December 2013, due to complaints over the World War II movie.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). The website is still accessible with a wide variety of The Pirate Bay proxies like http://tpbnet.org.

Singapore

The Singapore government had planned to entirely block pirated websites after the Copyright Act 2014 was amended but it will be blocked from 13 September 2014.[72]

Sweden

In May 2010, The Pirate Bay's Swedish Internet service provider lost an appeal against an order to stop providing service to the site. Although the service provider had already complied with an earlier order in August 2009 and The Pirate Bay was thereafter hosted elsewhere, in June 2010 the ISP chose also to block their customers from accessing The Pirate Bay in its new location. One of the judges in the case later commented that the court's order didn't require the ISP to control their customers' access to the site, but the ISP wanted to avoid any risk.[73]

Turkey

The Pirate Bay was blocked in Turkey for the first time in September 2007.[74] The Ban has since been lifted.

United Kingdom

Further information: List of websites blocked in the United Kingdom

On 20 February 2012, the High Court in London ruled that The Pirate Bay facilitates copyright infringement.[75] The operators of The Pirate Bay were not represented at the hearing.[76] On 30 April 2012 Justice Arnold ordered Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media to block access to the site.[77] BT "requested a few more weeks to further consider its position."[78] Virgin Media began blocking access to the site on 2 May 2012.[79] A source at The Pirate Bay claimed that it had received 12 million more visitors on the day after the ban than it had ever received before, commenting "We should write a thank you note to the BPI."[80]

BT has adapted its Cleanfeed system to enforce the block. The Pirate Bay commented "As usual there are easy ways to circumvent the block. Use a VPN service to be anonymous and get an uncensored Internet access, you should do this anyhow."[81] A study by Lund University suggested a 40% rise in the number of 15- to 25-year-olds using VPNs since 2009, although using them to download pirated material would be unlawful under UK law.[82]

On 10 June 2012, TalkTalk began blocking access to the website for its UK customers.[83] O2 and Sky Broadband have implemented the block, and on 19 June were joined by BT. Attempting to access The Pirate Bay via BT will produce the message "Error – site blocked".[84][85] Other ISPs show a message explaining the court order, with the The Pirate Bay logo and a link to the BPI website.[86]

In mid July ISP data suggested that P2P traffic in the UK had dipped 11% just after the block, but then swiftly recovered to nearly the level before the block was enforced. "...volumes are already pretty much back to where they were before." The ISP released the figures anonymously to the BBC.[87]

In December 2012, a proxy of The Pirate Bay website run by the Pirate Party UK was shut down following a threat of legal action by the British Phonographic Industry.[88]

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