Is it a good idea to exchange links within your own domain network?

A friend of ours said they get the following eircom message when they go to access piratebay.org?

• "ACCESS TO THIS IP ADDRESS RELATING TO THE PIRATE BAY WEBSITE HAS BEEN BLOCKED WHY? On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website thePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs. The Court was satisfied that on the basis of the evidence presented by the record companies that the PirateBay website is a website that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted sound recordings without the consent of the copyright owners. eircom recognises the legitimate rights of the owners of copyrighted material and believes that individuals who share or download copyrighted material without the authorisation or the permission of the copyright owner are acting illegally. The Order further provides that should the PirateBay website content be legitimatised in the future, then eircom has liberty to apply to the Court to have the Order vacated and access to the PirateBay website enabled. eircom in compliance with the Order has agreed that access to the website the PirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs from the eircom network will be blocked indefinitely from the 1st September 2009" Hmmmmm? I heard that one way around this was to use a proxy server - many of which are readily available for free on the net, of course I have no idea (whatsoever!) whether this is true or not as of course I haven't checked. But I wonder if this is so? : )

• Answer:

  Eircom blocked access to it because the record companies brought them to court but you can try other torrent sites i can still access the piratebay because i'm not with eircom i have UPC and it's a great connection. Or as you said you could use a proxy. :)