The ISP happily routes all IP traffic. Their court-sanctioned solution was just blocking their default nameserver from giving any records for thepiratebay.com.

The ISP happily routes all IP traffic. Their court-sanctioned solution was just blocking their default nameserver from giving any records for thepiratebay.com. This can be easily circumvented by editing your hosts-file, using some other DNS server than the ISP's, or running your own DNS server.