Italy has been showing BitTorrent no mercy lately. First, Italy shuts down the country’s largest BitTorrent tracker site, Colombo-BT.org, a couple of weeks ago; and now it is trying to block country-wide access to The Pirate Bay–the Swedish-based BitTorrent site that claims to be “the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker”–by ordering all Italian ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay. According to TorrentFreak, the initial country-wide blocking of the site was successful: “An insider working at an Internet provider