The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Motion Picture Association (MPA) have won yet another court case that will force all of the country’s largest broadband ISPs to block their customers from accessing EZTV and Yify-Torrents, which were both found to be facilitating internet copyright infringement (piracy).
Last month several ISPs quietly confirmed to us that Rights Holders were looking to block the two websites (here). As per usual the MPA and FACT then moved to seek an injunction (court order) under Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. Suffice to say that there were no objections by the court, which last week granted the request.
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A FACT Spokesman said (TorrentFreak):
“The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and FACT wrote to EZTV last month asking it to stop infringing creative content. This site provides access to copyrighted material on a large-scale with no permission from the copyright owners.
No response was received, so further action has been taken against EZTV through the courts.”
News like this is now becoming so common that it’s practically routine, although this often ignores the fact that such blocks remain incredibly easy to circumvent and their effectiveness is still in doubt. Never the less many more websites (examples) are likely to follow and so we can expect to see more of the same going forward.
ISPs like Sky Broadband, BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media usually implement the block within a couple of weeks from receipt of a court order.
UPDATE 26th July 2013
As expected the ISPs, starting with Virgin Media, have now begun to introduce the block.
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