Tuesday, 1 May 2012

UK High Court tells ISPs to ban The Pirate Bay

The popular Swedish based file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay is to be blocked by internet service providers in the United Kingdom
Originally started in Sweden in 2003, The Pirate Bay hosts download links to free video and music. It claims to be the largest of its kind, with more than 5.5 million registered users and over 4 million torrent files. It it estimated that around 3.7 million Britons are Pirate Bay users, according to ComScore, and Alexa consistently ranks it in the 100 most popular websites in the world.
In a battle over copyright law, the U.K. High Court has ruled that The Pirate Bay must be blocked by Broadband providers Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media. According to reports, the ruling will take effect within weeks... read full article.

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