Hollywood Wins Court Order to Force BT to Block Pirate Site
Hollywood movie studios won a legal victory as Britain's highest court ordered a telecommunications company to block access to a Website serving up pirated content.
A High Court judge ruled in favor of the Motion Picture Association and ordered British Telecomm on July 28 to block users trying to access Newzbin 2. A members-only site, Newzbin aggregates links to free movies and TV shows posted on Usenet boards.
The case, brought by the international arm of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association of America, would allow major studios such as Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Viacom’s Paramount Pictures and Sony's Columbia Pictures to go after other ISPs to block other pirate sites. ISPs generally resist requests from copyright holders to block sites, saying the decision lay with the courts.
