Category Archives: Legal

Sky becomes the second UK ISP to block Newzbin2 site

Posted by on December 18, 2011 No comments

 

Earlier this year we reported that BT was ordered by the court to block access to Newzbin2 in the first case of it’s kind in the UK.  Read that story here.

Sky has became the second ISP to block the website after receiving a court order on the 13th of December.  Your can read their press release on their website: http://www.sky.com/helpcentre/broadband/protecting-copyright/

From the sky press release:

“We have received a court order requiring us to block access to this illegal website, which we did on 13th December, 2011.”

Other UK ISPs have said they will obey a court order, but have yet to receive one.

UK government drops website blocking plans

Posted by on August 3, 2011 2 comments

Vince Cable has today announced changes to the Digital Economy Act which provisioned the blocking of websites suspected of copyright infringement.  A recent review carried out by Ofcom (office of communications) concluded that blocking of this kind would be “would not be effective.

 

This announcement comes just one week after succeeded in acquiring an injunction blocking BT users from accessing the popular indexer Newzbin2; a story we covered here.

The case of Newzbin2 has opened up other legal routes for companies perusing such websites.