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 [...]
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UK government drops website blocking plans
Posted by ben on August 3rd, 2011
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 [...]
