Following Ziggo and XS4ALL, now KPN will also remove the block on The Pirate Bay website, announced KPN, Friday. The Brein Foundation got a court order, forcing almost all Dutch internet providers to block Pirate Bay since May 2012.

The Dutch could still gain access to the website through back ways. However, the The Hague court ruled in January this year that Ziggo and XS4ALL were not obligated to block the website. That decision overturned the order from 2012. KPN, UPC, and Tele2 had filed separate lawsuits and awaited the outcome of their own cases before also lifting the block. After the January ruling the Brein Foundation contacted all parties involved to try and come to a settlement, but the foundation is still planning on appealing the court's decision. The court ruled the block is not effective, but does affect the freedom of entrepreneurship. In addition the providers are not the ones violating any copyrights, according to the judge. The decision of the The Hague court contradicts decisions of other European courts. A verdict of the highest European court is expected shortly.