By: Spacelab Research Staff

Internet service provider Tele2 has been ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay by a Danish court, after a civil lawsuit brought by the IFPI.

Not to be outplayed, The Pirate Bay has launched a new workaround at www.jesperbay.org, named after the IFPI head. TorrentFreak is reporting "The Pirate Bay team is also asking fellow BitTorrent admins to help out, by redirecting all customers from Tele2, to The Jesper Bay. They have written a piece of code that will redirect all the users from Tele2 to The Jesper Bay, so they can change their DNS."

Welcome to the back and forth battle that is now emerging between The Pirate Bay, its community, and the music industry.

This is coming from the recent announcement that the operators of The Pirate Bay (Carl Lundstrom, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg) were participating in copyright infringement, with charges brought saying that they were "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws."

The IFPI expects that other ISPs will follow along with the block, but Reuters is saying that "Other large Danish Internet service providers said they would not immediately follow the order."



