BT ordered to block pirate links

[xxMATTGxx]

A High Court judge has ruled that BT must block access to a website which provides links to pirated movies.

Newzbin 2 is a members-only site which aggregates a large amount of the illegally copied material found on Usenet discussion forums.

The landmark case is 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.

In his ruling, Justice Arnold stated: "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."

He continued: "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."

BT and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which brought the case, will be back in court in October to work out how the blocking will work.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14322957

So really it's only time until all ISP's in the United Kingdom have to block this site and maybe other illegal downloading sites in the future... Welcome to China anyone?

[:Markster:]

Lol China? I really doubt that, i'd rather say Sweden. But yeah interesting story, though i really doubt illegal downloading will ever stop. There is always going to be people who'd rather get things for free and people willing to share their purchases with the community. Also some of the sites have got legit material on them so the court cases with those sites will take ages to resolve. What makes shutting down sites even harder is the international laws, that's why sites such as Wikileaks and PirateBay are hosted in Sweden, as they don't have as strict laws on copyrighted materials. As far as the ISPs go they can always be bypassed i would suppose. But yeah this is a very interesting topic, I'm definitely going to keep an eye on what's going to happen.
- Mark

[Ardemax]

glad i moved to Orange haha.

i want to see less pirated movies cos' you know its only fair, but tbh its not going to do a lot and there are PLENTY of ways around it.

[Shar]

glad i moved to Orange haha.

i want to see less pirated movies cos' you know its only fair, but tbh its not going to do a lot and there are PLENTY of ways around it.

I agree, I doubt it will make a big difference..

I just moved to BT too

[xxMATTGxx]

glad i moved to Orange haha.

i want to see less pirated movies cos' you know its only fair, but tbh its not going to do a lot and there are PLENTY of ways around it.

Orange would most likely use BT wholesale or whatever you call it so you would most likely be affected. But there would be always ways to get around the block so blah.

[Recursion]

I doubt we'll see it put into action, either way, if you're smart enough to use USENET, you're smart enough to bypass their block (which is as easy as not using BT's DNS... lol)

[Niall!]

Interesting to see they're going after usenet first and not torrents.

Hmm, this could be problematic for me.

[dbgtz]

Interesting to see they're going after usenet first and not torrents.

Hmm, this could be problematic for me.

I don't think they can block torrent sites as they're technically not doing anything illegal.

[beth]

does this mean yr activity whilst trying to access these sites will be logged etc? is it easier to be caught doing illegal stuff?

[-Danube-]

does this mean yr activity whilst trying to access these sites will be logged etc? is it easier to be caught doing illegal stuff?

Your ISP can see what sites you are accessing, they probably do keep some kinda of log of which IPs connected to which or something. But they have so many customers it would be hard to track. ISPs turn a blind eye to privating i think, put it this way, if you knew a certain internet company was shopping people to the cops for illegal downloading, would you buy broadband from them? No. There are cases where people get letters from their ISP but i think that in an extreme case when its getting out of hand?

There are also such think as 'fake' torrents. Government bodies and over agencies post fake torrents up on sites, you then download them and boom, they have your IP.