Amidst the ongoing legal barriers and the outages, The Pirate Bay, the renowned torrent site, is up and still running. (Photo : Twitter/The Pirate Bay)

The Pirate Bay is all set to be blocked in Iceland as local ISPs agreed to block access for its customers. However, a Pirate Party MP criticized the ban and stated that website banning would happen without any sort of trial first.



Local ISPs of Iceland and major copyright holders have come to an agreement to block access to The Pirate Bay and Deildu.net, according to RUV.




Ásta Guðrún Helgadóttir, a Pirate Party MP strongly came down on the blockade of The Pirate Bay. "This is just censorship and there occurs what is called "public-private partnership" in English as a private company, which said beneficiaries, are to conclude an agreement on something that the courts and police authority, or executive, to be his," she said to Visir.



Back on October last year, Reykjavík District Court of Iceland ordered Hringdu and Vodaphone to block The Pirate Bay as well as Deildu for the customers in Iceland. And now the blockade is put into action.



"It seems to me the ruling will set a precedent for blocking access to websites without taking the matter to trial first and proving [the torrent sites] have hurt anyone," Helgadóttir added via Grapevine.



Even after The Pirate Bay is blocked in Iceland by major ISPs, people can still access TPB using various other mediums like proxy servers. It has to be seen how strong this implementation of the blockade will be.



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