Seeing hat every dutch computer magazine printed an article on "how to get around the TPB block" that every 5 year old can follow
Seeing that download traffic actually increased after the ban because it advertised and challenged people to circumvent. I do not see this having any lasting effect.
If it does another will spring up

Now that looks like the freedom Europe has been known for and what Kroes was fighting for. Bassakwards!! Pretty soon we will have to get permits (indirect taxes) to use the internet, so they can criminalize normal people in the process.

'a good one for innovation and creativity' my ass.
It's a good one for the profits of a few giant media companies that completely dominate the world market.
It's a terrible one for freedom of speech and for small producers.
For those afraid of the change, three solutions:
1 - Proxies
2 - VPN (also good to keep you anonymous)
3 - Tribbler (has it's own decentralized search engine and will search the piratebay files)

And in June we'll see record profits for the recording industry in holland now that the theft via tpb will be impossible. And pigs will fly and the hedwig polder will be flooded. The lack of pragmatism on the behalf of brein is astounding. I honestly can only believe that their ultimate goal is total control of the Internet and the subjugation of the people. This blockade won't solve a thing.

Amusingly, brein doesn't seem to be whiter than white when it comes to piracy either. http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-corruption-scandal-surrounds-anti-piracy-campaign-111201/?_

Interesting! So are Google (and other search engines) banned as well? As well as countless other sides? Or is it illegal to use them? Try using Google Search, or Google Translate to get around this.

For more details, see https://torrentfreak.com/unblocking-the-pirate-bay-the-hard-way-is-fun-for-geeks-120506/

These laws are about as useful as drug laws, impossible to police and a complete waste of time and money. What a joke!

Great news! I can put my Freegate that I use to access Facebook in China to good use in my home country the Netherlands too!

The blocking is not just illegal under the new net neutrality law. It also violates the rights of the independent authors that post their content directly on The Pirate Bay. Also the judges must be aware that the lawsuits waste taxpayers money on protecting something that has very little or no value, such as the content created by the entertaining industries nowadays.

Hi,
Further to my earlier comment I was transported with a Connexxion bus as to pass my books on, this because my car had be stolen in Holland. Without Connexxion bus I could not have done this. In conclusion if sharing is illegal you must ban Connexxion buses for transporting me, this in accordance with your court ruling.
Dr. Terence Hale

From RNW:“I know there are ways round blocked access,” admits Tim Kuik, director of Brein. “But we’re going to continue hounding the illegal providers. That’s the only way to stimulate legal downloading. As long as people can get a film for free, they won’t choose to pay for it.”

Well, they will if you provide a service worth paying for. Most down loaders download because a reasonably priced (non-gouging) option is not available. And for the rest, they wouldn't pay anyway, so you still haven't lost any of your profits.

Agreed, total waste of time and money!! Now with the quality of online services provided, you can see why people download these types of media. NetFlix was due to enter this market 2.5 yrs ago, they skipped it due to a jungle of legislation which is also why Sony did not add it to the ps3 in many parts of Europe. So, give some good competition and stop those billionaire Moviestars from complaining when then become millionaires.

The phrase 'closing the stable door after the horse has bolted' springs to mind.. who still uses TPB?

@H: I know. They assume that for EVERY download, they are losing precious profits. Which simply IS NOT the case. Many people, like myself, would have NOTHING TO DO WITH paying for the crap that I download - I just simply wouldn't expose myself to it at all. It would probably be something like 10% of people that downloaded movie X would actually pay for it, if there were a reasonably priced option like you said. I download stuff to try it out; if I like it, I choose to spend money on it.

Do these lawmakers even know what the legal definition of 'copyright' and 'intellectual property right' are? Filesharing is a technical method that facilitates sharing of digital files via the internet. If a website that only searches and indexes these files is considered illegal then what about other search and index sites such as Google, Bing etc? How come the copyright law is not envoked to shut down companies making copymachines such as Xerox, Kyocera, Canon etc..?

Big corporate interest groups are now directly involved in our legal system affecting it to further their own cause. The way ACTA was treated as some kind of secret work being discussed behind closed doors is not how I imagined the European Union before.

Interestingly, it has been reported that the judge has also been involved in commercial activities with copy right holders in the not too distant past. I wonder just how independent and unbiased the judge was....

I can easily use PirateRay.com tool that uses dynamic IP and secure tunnels to access any torrent site if even blocked. So what is a sense of blocking The PirateBay ?