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Italian Court Orders All ISPs To Block KickAssTorrents

Early this year TorrentFreak published a shortlist of the world’s most popular torrent sites. Leading the pack was of course The Pirate Bay, but in third place came a site that over its...

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Thursday, May 24th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Cybercrime Police Shut Down Five File-Sharing Sites

Translated as “Financial Guard”, Guardia di Finanza (GdF) is a department under Italy’s Minister of Economy and Finance and actually part of the Italian Armed Forces. It is tasked with dealing with financial...

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Friday, November 11th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Google Helps Italians to Unblock Their Favorite Torrent Site

Recent attempts from the Italian authorities to crack down on one of the largest torrent sites on the Internet have backfired. When BTjunkie was censored in Italy earlier this year, the site’s owner...

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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block

After an Italian court ordered all ISPs to block The Pirate Bay in 2008, this year the authorities shifted their focus to making BTjunkie unavailable too. This week it turned out that not...

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Saturday, July 16th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Italian ISPs Sued For Ignoring BTjunkie Blockade

Earlier this year an Italian court ordered a nationwide blackout of the country’s most-used torrent site BTjunkie. Italian ISPs were ordered to block both the IP addresses of the site and its domain...

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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 Net News No Comments