I'm pretty sure it never happened. This would have been big news here. The technology press went ape when thepriatebay.org was added to a DNS blocklist. I have searched around and can not find any references to hrw or match being blocked by accident or not.
Either the article writer is confusing Norway with another country or this is just "Journalistic flair" i.e. a lie.
Either the article writer is confusing Norway with another country or this is just "Journalistic flair" i.e. a lie.