The Pirate Bay Blocked in Italy

An insider working at an Internet provider in Italy told TorrentFreak that all the relevant large access ISPs in Italy have complied with the request to block the popular BitTorrent tracker, which was sent out yesterday.

In a response to the news, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunder told TorrentFreak that they have already implemented countermeasures to make sure all Italians will be able to access their site.

"We're quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators," Sunde wrote in a blog entry.

Sunde has his suspicions about the reason for the block, he told us: "It's quite funny that the country Italy is run by the biggest media mogul of them all. we're his competitors."