New and digital media article 10: Pirate Bay ban lifted in Netherlands as blocking torrent sites ruled ‘ineffective’

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/pirate-bay-ban-lifted-in-netherlands-as-blocking-torrent-sites-ruled-ineffective

Earlier on in my research of articles I spoke about the new pirate bay browser and well in the Netherlands the Dutch court states that the ban should be lifted on pirate bay after two dutch internet providers, Ziggo and XS4All too this to court which led to the reversing of the blocking order. Niels Huijbregts, spokesman for XS4All stated that the free internet was victorious and that they are "pleased that the court ruled in favour of the freedom of information, protecting a fundamental right of all Dutch citizens." The judges believe that blocking the pirate bay at ISP level didn't stop users from using the BitTorrent network and illegal downloading, it actually did the opposite and increased piracy.

I believe that if something is taken away from an audience or group of people then they will most likely find a way around it so of course this banning was ineffective but it was surprising that piracy actually increased with the loss of the site. It's possible that it caused some sort of moral panic in illegal downloaders and that of course led to them all trying to find new ways to get their software before other sites get banned and then they'll be unable to obtain any sort of illegal stuff.