Thread: Uk, Website Blocking.

This is on the bbc news website today.

Virgin Media, Sky and TalkTalk have been asked to block access to Newzbin2, a members-only group which provides links to pirated films and music.

BT has already barred its customers from accessing the site, following a court case brought by the Motion Picture Association.

The MPA is now extending its net in a UK-wide crackdown on piracy.

TalkTalk said it was "considering its response". Sky and Virgin Media signalled they would obey court orders.

Legal battle
"There are some elements of the order, for instance that we have to pay the costs of implementing it, that we think are inappropriate," Andrew Heaney, head of regulatory affairs at TalkTalk, told the BBC.

BT has estimated that the block against Newzbin cost it around £5,000 to set up.

"In a sense it wouldn't be worth having a legal battle over that but it the costs get a lot more we may reserve the right to contest it in the future," Mr Heaney said.

The MPA confirmed that it had written to the major ISPs.

"We are involved in constructive discussions but we are not going to comment in detail at this stage," said an MPA spokesman.

Virgin Media acknowledged that it had also received a letter as a preliminary step towards a formal court order.

"The recent Newzbin2 ruling clarifies the legal process for content owners to challenge alleged copyright infringement," said a Virgin Media spokesman.

"As a responsible ISP, we will comply with any court order addressed to us but strongly believe such deterrents need to be accompanied by compelling legal alternatives."

Sky also indicated that it was likely to comply with any court order.

"When presented with undisputed and legally robust evidence of copyright breaches, we will take appropriate action in respect to site blocking," said a spokesman.

Workaround
The MPA has hailed the Newzbin block as a victory in its ongoing fight against piracy which it estimates costs the industry billions of pounds each year.

It has vowed to implement similar blocks against other sites offering links to pirated movies.

Newzbin said on the day that BT's block began that it was "unaffected" because it had issued a software workaround. It claimed the code was being used by over 90% of its members.

In response, the MPA said that despite ways to get around the block, it was hopeful that the move would deter the "vast majority of customers".

Web blocking appears to be the new weapon of choice for the creative industries. On 4 November BT received a letter from the BPI, the UK's music industry trade body, asking it to block access to BitTorrent file-sharing website The Pirate Bay.

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Sad times are ahead for us pirates. I want to ask you guys if you know of any websites that have up to date info on bypassing these blocks or something along these lines. I know of the tor network, vpns etc, but is there any technical discussion websites out there? My final option, after everything else fails, will be joining a rental service like lovefilm, but that will be a very sad day.

It cost £5,000 to block a website?

good only in the Uk, its easy to bypass though.

change DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and if worst comes to worst use a proxy.

These people spent money to block a website.... The website exists mostly to save people money... They spent money because the government wants to keep people from saving money... The government wants you to spend money so you can't save money... There's millions of piracy sites on the internet so they literally just took some cash and threw it in a dumpster... Governments thinks you can just throw money at a problem and it'll go away... Piracy isn't going to go away...

Originally Posted by jchillin89

These people spent money to block a website.... The website exists mostly to save people money... They spent money because the government wants to keep people from saving money... The government wants you to spend money so you can't save money... There's millions of piracy sites on the internet so they literally just took some cash and threw it in a dumpster... Governments thinks you can just throw money at a problem and it'll go away... Piracy isn't going to go away...

tough what this does do is make it harder for regular internet users to do normal stuff on the internet. whereas pirates will just find a workaround.

Dont know why but im missing 90% of my post so f*** it delete this someone please.

guys this is wrong we can help stop this and help stop the protect ip act by the us goverment this is the site to go to it needs 25.000 signs to complete the signatures by november 3oth thats the deadline its wrong what these goverments are doing people trying to save money there trying to take everything away from us its not right but heres the site guys hope everyone signs https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...e-act/SWBYXX55

Originally Posted by drive1

guys this is wrong we can help stop this and help stop the protect ip act by the us goverment this is the site to go to it needs 25.000 signs to complete the signatures by november 3oth thats the deadline its wrong what these goverments are doing people trying to save money there trying to take everything away from us its not right but heres the site guys hope everyone signs https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...e-act/SWBYXX55

as an extension to that, we should all work to post links to pirated content on a popular site like facebook if that law passes and get it shut down

good one. i hate facebook and only have a dummy account when websites require to use them, not even my real name.