The Pirate Bay To Be Blocked By Romanian ISPs Following Hollywood Complaints

• Hollywood studios have finally managed to persuade Internet Service Providers in Romania to block the world's most popular torrent website. 
• In the complaint, popular pirating websites like Filmehd.net, Filmeonline2013.biz, and The Pirate Bay, along with several related domains were requested to be blocked.
• The Complaint was filled back in 2017 by eight Hollywood companies. Several market-leading ISPs of the countries were held as defendants in the case.

For what seems like time immemorial, Hollywood Studios have been fighting torrent websites like The Pirate Bay and seeking their termination, to fight copyright infringement. Now, the situation in the US is not so dire, but the same can't be said for Europe.

Over 1800 sites including 5300 related domains have been blocked throughout 17 countries in the European Union. And this list is increasing. Just this week, Hollywood studios managed to get Romanian ISPs to ban The Pirate Bay and many related domains.

It was back in 2017 when Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Disney, and a few more popular Hollywood studios targeted several ISPs in Romania to block three pirating websites. The Pirate Bay ranked top on that list followed by Filmehd.net and Filmeonline2013.biz, the latter being a TV show streaming portal.

In the mess that transpired, some popular ISPs in the country including RCS & RDS, Telekom Romania, Digital Cable Systems, and Nextgen Communication, were asked to block a list of domains (mentioned below). Albeit, it is worth noting that this decision is not final and ISPs can appeal to the Bucharest Court of Appeal.

As it turns out, the defendant ISPs will have the option to implement DNS blocking regime on the fixed-line services. If this is done, then customers will have the option to switch to a secondary DNS provider, like Google or OpenDNS. This can help users to evade the blocks and gain back access to the torrenting website. But we will have to wait and see how the ISPs react.

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay has been blocked in what appears to be 19 countries at a minimum. This widespread blocking has stirred up a whole eco-system of third-party websites to create alternative domains, proxies, VPNs, and even TOR for accessing the website. This is one of the reasons why the Hollywood studios have requested for the blocking of ThePirateBay.org followed by a laundry list of other domains. Interestingly enough, this website already has a workout ready as it happened with the recent The Pirate Bay ban in India. 

Here is a full look at all the domains that are to be blocked in Romania:

• FilmeHD – filmehd.net
• FilmeOnline2013 – filmeonline2013.biz
• thepiratebay.org,
• http://fbay.maik.rocks,
• http://bayproxy.net,
• http://thepiratebayz.org,
• http://tpb.portalimg.com,
• https://fastpiratebay.co.uk,
• https://gameofbay.org,
• https://ikwilthepiratebay.org,
• https://oldbayproxy.eu,
• https://pirate.trade,
• https://piratebay.click,
• https://piratebay.red,
• https://piratebayblocked.corn,
• https://piratebaymirror.eu,
• https://piratebayproxy.be,
• https://piratebayproxy.tf,
• https://piratebays.co,
• https://piratebays.co.uk,
• https://pirateproxy.cam,
• https://pirateproxy.dick,
• https://pirateproxy.sh,
• https://pirateproxy.tf,
• https://pirateproxy.wf,
• https://pirateproxy.yt,
• https://thebay.tv,
• https://thehiddenbay.cc,
• https://thehiddenbay.fi,
• https://thehiddenbay.info,
• https://thehiddenbay.ws,
• https://thepiratebay.bypassed.st,
• https://thepiratebay.co.in,
• https://thepiratebay.rocks,
• https://thepiratebay.uk.net,
• https://thepiratebay.unblocker.cc,
• https://thepiratebay-proxy.com,
• https://tpbbay.eu,
• https://tpbmirror.us,
• https://tpbunblocked.org,
• https://ukpirate.dick,
• https://ukpirate.org,
• https://ukpirateproxy.xyz,
• https://unblockedbay.info,
• https://urbanproxy.eu

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