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In the week following 8 July 2021, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security launched Operation 404 against Internet piracy. On 18 April 2012, TorrentFreak reports that these two alternate domain names were also blocked, presumably added to the already existing court order. 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. It is incompatible with the doctrine of proportionality advocated by the European Court of Human Rights.' 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.

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Thanks for the free advertising.' The court order listed domain names to block, which all included 'were also blocked by ISPs who wished to comply with the 'spirit of the law', although the court order did not specify this. 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. 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. BAF accused them of providing a safe-haven to The Pirate Bay and filed an appeal. The ISPs said that it was not their position to decide which sites can and can not be accessed by their users. In July 2010, the Antwerpse Handelsrechtbank (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'. After year-long negotiations broke down, the result was legal action. Australia įurther information: Websites blocked in BelgiumĪfter 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. Possibly due to the hack of the government site in protest and a general lack of interest. Īs of 2017, there is no confirmed blockade of the site in the country. With this order, the CNC made ISPs block the IP range 194.71.107.0 to 194.71.107.255, in which The Pirate Bay operates, and 12 different The Pirate Bay domains.

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The order originated as a product of a trial between the site and the CAPIF (Argentinian Chamber of Phonograms Productors). On 30 June 2014, the Argentine CNC (National Communications Commission) ordered the blocking of all The Pirate Bay domains.