EU Public Affairs Monitor - 15/08/08

Italy Bans Access to Popular Pirate Hangout 15/08/08
Web users in Italy may find it difficult to access The Pirate Bay, a site that freely distributes the tools needed to trade copyrighted music, movies and software over the Internet. A complaint brought up by an anti-piracy group in Milan resulted in a judge's order to Italian ISPs to block the Web site, which is based in Sweden.

An Italian judge has ordered the country's Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe into copyright law violation, officials said Thursday." [TechNewsWorld]