BT given 14 days to block Newzbin2 by UK court
BT has been given 14 days to block access to Newzbin2, a website accused by Hollywood studios of promoting illegal file-sharing "on a grand scale", in a ruling by the UK's High Court.
In the first judgement of its kind under UK copyright law, Justice Arnold ruled in favour of a consortium of film industry giants, including Warner Bros, Paramount, Disney, Universal, Fox and Columbia, enforcing an earlier judgment that the site had made millions by exploiting others' work.
BT - Britain's largest ISP, with a customer base of around six million - must comply with the court order by blocking access to all of its subscribers within the two weeks. Justice Arnold also pre-emptively moved to prevent access to the site via other means. He ordered BT to block "any other IP address or URL whose sole or predominant purpose is to enable or facilitate access to the Newzbin[2] website", preventing the site from reaching BT customers from another location on the web.
