: Thailand's Copyright Act provides the legal basis for these crackdowns. Periodic high-profile arrests of site administrators occur to signal a "zero tolerance" policy toward piracy.
That has changed. Under pressure from the US Trade Representative (USTR) and the EU, the Thai government passed the Copyright Act (No. 2) B.E. 2558 (2015) . This amendment introduced the "Take Down and Stay Down" system. The key change for torrent users was the empowerment of the Intellectual Property Department to block access to "pirate websites" without a court order. thailand bittorrent