A Danish court is ordering a Denmark internet service provider to shut down access to The Pirate Bay, the notorious BitTorrent tracking site that points the way to copyrighted movies, games, music and more.
Danish IT magazine Computerworld said on its site that one of Denmark's largest internet service providers closed the site at the request of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
"The provider had agreed to follow the order and it is expected that other Internet service providers will voluntarily follow the court order," the IFPI said.
Reuters reported that the other ISPs in Denmark would not voluntarily follow the order.
Last week, The Bay's four operators were charged criminally for allegedly allowing its millions of users to access copyright infringement. The group vowed that The Pirate Bay would never be unplugged.
Tele2 Denmark, the ISP at issue, has nearly a 4 percent market share. There are almost 2 million internet subscriptions in Denmark.
The move is not likely to cut into The Bay's traffic.
The site tracks more than 1 million torrents and has 10 million simultaneous peers on the trackers. See Also:
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