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. Further 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.
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