{"id":120876,"date":"2017-09-25T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120876"},"modified":"2017-09-24T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T11:01:39","slug":"dutch-isps-ordered-to-block-the-pirate-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/120876-dutch-isps-ordered-to-block-the-pirate-bay","title":{"rendered":"Dutch ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hague has ordered Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL to block access to The Pirate Bay,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/block-the-pirate-bay-within-10-days-dutch-court-tells-isps-170922\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They must comply with the order within 10 days or face fines.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling is a continuation in a case from 2014, when it was ruled ISPs do not have to block The Pirate Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-piracy organisation BREIN appealed to the Supreme Court, which requested clarification from the\u00a0EU Court of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The EU said The Pirate Bay may be blocked, and the Dutch Supreme Court can therefore order the block.<\/p>\n<p>BREIN did not wait for a Supreme Court ruling, however, and approached The Hague Court of Appeal \u2013 which ruled in its favour.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court may still overturn this ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Should the ISPs fail to implement the ban, they face fines of 2,000 euros per day.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/229461-the-pirate-bay-may-use-your-pc-to-mine-cryptocurrency.html\">The Pirate Bay may use your PC to mine cryptocurrency<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hague has ordered Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL to block access to The Pirate Bay,\u00a0TorrentFreak reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":91941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25106,2440,8305],"class_list":["post-120876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dutch-isps","tag-the-pirate-bay","tag-torrentfreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}