Recently, some hardcore torrent fans were worried that The Pirate Bay might be the next to go as reports of major file-sharing sites shutting down surfaced online. Indeed, with The Pirate Bay still having having intermittent presence online, the future looked bleak for one of the most popular torrent download sites worldwide.

However, a bit of good news for torrent downloaders came up recently. According to ZDNet, The Pirate Bay has found respite in its ongoing legal battles against media conglomerates and anti-piracy organizations wanting to shut the file-sharing site down.

The report mentioned that the District Court of Stockholm ruled that internet service providers should not ban websites currently hosted in Sweden, which includes TPB. In addition, the Disrict Court also ruled that organizations or copyright holders don't have the right to ask, much less pressure, Swedish ISPs to block The Pirate Bay. On the ruling, presiding Chief Magistrate Anders Dereborg has been quoted as saying, "A unanimous District Court considers, therefore, that it is not in a position to authorize such a ban as the rights holders want and therefore rejects their request."

The ruling stemmed from a complaint lodged by media conglomerates like Warner Music and Universal Music, together with anti-piracy groups, taking ISP Bredbandsbolaget to court. The service provider apparently refused to take action to ban TPB.

Meanwhile, The Court of Hague has postponed its final decision as the court referred the case to the highest court in Europe, the EU Court of Justice. Last year, The Court of Hague also decided in favor of The Pirate Bay, ruling that blocking sites from ISPs constitute repression of entrepreneurial freedom, and asked ISPs to unblock the torrent-sharing site.