Hollywood's battle against The Pirate Bay website continues in Europe with yet another injunction. A Dutch court has ordered the shutdown of a WordPress-based proxy operated by hosting company Greenhost. The company initially refused to take the proxy offline, but faced with a court order and the prospect of a 1,000 euro per day fine, Greenhost sees no other option than to throw in the towel.

Earlier this year we reported on a brand new anti-censorship WordPress plugin called RePress.

RePress turns any WordPress blog into a fully operational proxy. It’s a useful tool for people whose speech is restricted by oppressive regimes, but also handy for downloaders in the Netherlands, the UK and other countries where ISPs block The Pirate Bay.

The plugin makers, hosting company Greenhost, showed off this capability by running their own Pirate Bay proxy on its servers. However, not everyone was happy with this censorship workaround.

Because the proxy allowed the Dutch public to access The Pirate Bay, the Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN demanded that Greenhost take the proxy offline. However, the hosting company refused to do so and said it would only comply if presented with a court order.

Last Friday, such an order arrived. The Court of The Hague issued an ex-parte injunction and gave Greenhost 6 hours to take down all the proxies through which the public can access The Pirate Bay. If the company fails to comply it now faces a 1,000 euro fine per day.

The Court order is only directed at the proxies that were hosted by Greenhost. The WordPress plugin and proxies directed at other websites are allowed to stay up.

Greenhost CEO Sacha van Geffen is disappointed by the Court’s decision and the fact that his company wasn’t heard in the matter. The hosting provider will now consider what judicial steps to take next.

Previously the Dutch Pirate Party fought a similar injunction in court, but without success. After the court heard both sides the proxy ban was upheld. In addition, the Pirate Party was forbidden from encouraging the public to circumvent the Pirate Bay blockade and from listing or hosting tools that enable others to do so.

While it is clear that BREIN will do everything in its power to enforce the Pirate Bay blockade, the effectiveness of their course of action is questionable. Even worse, it might even be counterproductive.

Last week the Dutch Internet provider XS4All revealed that BitTorrent traffic on its network went up after they imposed the Pirate Bay blockade. All the media attention acts as promotion for BitTorrent, the ISP theorized.