According to the BBC in a landmark decision, A High Court judge in Britain has ruled that British Telecom (BT) must block access to a website which provides links to pirated movies.
The case involved a site call Newzbin 2 which had links to pirated movies.
This is a landmark case since its the first time that an ISP has been ordered to block access to such a site.”
“It paves the way for other sites to be blocked as part of a major crackdown on piracy.”
The court said in part
“In my judgment it follows that BT has actual knowledge of other persons using its service to infringe copyright: it knows that the users and operators of Newzbin 2 infringe copyright on a large scale, and in particular infringe the copyrights of the studios in large numbers of their films and television programmes. It knows that the users of Newzbin 2 include BT subscribers, and it knows those users use its service to receive infringing copies of copyright works made available to them by Newzbin 2.”
Justice Arnold ruled that BT must use its blocking technology CleanFeed, which is currently used to prevent access to websites featuring child sexual abuse, to block Newzbin 2.
BT said it will not appeal the ruling.
Are they supposed to block Google.co.uk also ? Prolly will take sometime before they force Google to filter content.
The next likely move for the uber-corrupt UK will be to block access to all political websites not on the far radical left. Thank God I don’t live in that country.
OK so these sites will start to link to sites which provides links 🙂
“Thank God I don’t live in that country.”
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Chasing pirates has been a fixation of ours that’s been going on for centuries….its hereditary. 😉
Its not so bad here John, the streets are pretty safe in most places, you don’t need a gun at all unless you’re a drug dealer and if you do need a copper you can buy your own…..apparently.
Is it nice where you live?
Update:
Government drops website blocking
“Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government.”
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14372698