The Pirate Bay has won a court case in Italy appealing a judge’s decision to have ISPs block access to the torrent tracker, reports TorrentFreak.
Days after the initial order it backfired, and the Pirate Bay’s Italian web traffic actually increased 5 percent as new and old users found ways of circumventing the block.
Pirate Bay’s lawyers spoke with TorrentFreak last month and were optimistic for a victory, citing lack of jurisdiction among other weaknesses in the case.
“Even the judge who issued the decree states that no infringing material is hosted on The Pirate Bay, which provides just a tracker search engine,” they said.
But this is only one small win in a sea of legal battles that have been threatening the site, including accusations of copyright infringement by the Swedish government and requests from the International Olympic Committee to remove Olympic footage back in August.
Pirate Bay Wins Court Case, Italian Block Lifted [TorrentFreak]
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