Tuesday 28 January 2014

Website Blocking Orders Against UK ISPs

[2013] EWHC 3479 (Ch)


The High Court issued website blocking orders under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act against the main UK internet service providers such as Sky, BT, TalkTalk, Virgin and others for infringement of copyrights held by major film studios. The relevant websites like TubePlus infringe copyrights by providing access to streams of films hosted by third party websites. The internet service providers host those relevant websites like TubePlus knowing this hosting service is actually used by the websites to infringe copyrights.

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