A total of 206 proxy sites providing access to The Pirate Bay were blocked by Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN in 2013 along with more than 500 sites linking to, streaming or torrenting copyrighted material.

While the blocking of 500 piracy sites may be held as a victory for the territory, the shuttering of 206 Pirate Bay proxies last year may well be rendered irrelevant in 2014 after The Court of The Hague lifted the requirement for Dutch ISPs to block ...