Pirate Bay is free to sail through Holland's Internet once again

A Dutch court of appeal has overturned a court-ordered block of the infamous Pirate Bay torrent site by internet service providers (ISPs), labelling the practice as "ineffective".

"This blockade imposed a violation of the basic right to freedom of commercial activity of the providers with insufficient justification," the ruling said, according to the Associated Press. "It is of great significance that the providers themselves were not violating copyrights."

In 2012, a Dutch court ruled in favor of anti-piracy group BREIN and ordered the ISPs to block the site. Under the terms of the ruling, the ISPs faced fines of up to 10,000 euros ($13,650) for every day The Pirate Bay was accessible to customers. A handful of the ISPs were opposed to the ruling because they said they didn't want to act as Internet censors.

Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay - which boasts more than 30 million users - makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and other files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site.

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