Dutch court orders Pirate Bay blocking ceased, BREIN fined $445,600

The Court of the Hague today ruled that Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL are not required to block traffic to and from BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, reversing a January 2012 order. The court found during the hearing that the blocks were both ineffectual, and unnecessary censorship and forced anti-piracy group BREINto pay 326,000 Euro ($445,600) in damages to the affected broadband providers….