Posted: 04th Nov, 2011 By: MarkJ


Last week the UK
High Court of Justice (London) gave BT just 14 days to implemented a required block (censorship) of the controversial
Newzbin2 piracy website (
here). The blocking has now started to go live and many BT broadband customers whom attempt to visit the site are being greeted by a simple message - "
Error – site blocked".
But some fear that it won't have much of an impact. Newzbin2 has reportedly informed
TorrentFreak that 93% of its active BT users have already downloaded the sites anti-censorship software, which
circumvents the ISPs Cleanfeed filtering system. In fact there are many different ways to avoid such restrictions (e.g. VPN, Proxy Servers etc.), which isn't BT's fault but rather a simple fact of how the internet itself works.
Opponents to the measure frequently suggest that site blocking is costly, ineffective and fails to address "
the root causes of why people infringe copyright" (Consumer Focus). Never the less the government, ISPs and Rights Holders are still working on a
voluntary solution that will block the worst offenders from view.