[x-pubpol] BSkyB blocks The Pirate Bay for millions of Brits

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/31/bskyb_blocks_pirate_bay_after_court_order/


BT will also obey court's banning order within weeks

By Kelly Fiveash<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2012/05/31/bskyb_blocks_pirate_bay_after_court_order/>

BSkyB's broadband biz has cut off conventional access to The Pirate Bay
website following a High Court order at the end of last month.

Virgin Media was the
first<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/03/virgin_media_cuts_off_pirate_bay/>
to
block www.thepiratebay.se, just days after Justice Arnold told VM, BSkyB
and three other ISPs – TalkTalk, Telefonica and Everything Everywhere – to
comply with the order. Everything Everywhere also blocked the file-sharing
search engine.

As we reported at the time, BT was absent from the judge's list because the
country's national telecoms giant had been given more time to respond.

A BT spokesman told *The Register* last month: "We continue to have
discussions with the BPI and we hope to announce an outcome acceptable to
both of us soon."

*El Reg* understands that BT will comply with the order within the next few
weeks.

BSkyB, meanwhile, cut access to TPB for around 4 million subscribers
yesterday. The company said:

We have invested billions of pounds in high-quality entertainment for our
customers because we know how much our customers value it. It’s therefore
important that companies like ours do what they can, alongside the
government and the rest of the media and technology industries, to help
protect their copyright.

Such protection makes sure that consumers continue to benefit from TV
programmes, movies and music both now and in the future. This means taking
effective action against online piracy and copyright infringement.

The final two ISPs ordered by the court to block The Pirate Bay – O2
(Telefonica) and TalkTalk – both have until 13 June to comply.

It was ruled in
February<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/20/the_pirate_bay_infringes_copyright/>
this
year that both the operators and the users of TPB are liable for
infringement of the copyright of music companies.


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