BT gets 14 days to block Newzbin2
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Websites and IP addresses will become unreachable for the first time in the UK for copyright reasons. The High Court has ordered BT to block subscribers access to Newzbin 2, as well as any other sites or end points it uses.
US movie studios brought the case over Usenet scraper Newzbin, and although BT tried to argue that copyright infringement wasn’t any of its business, and that policing it was intrusive, a court comprehensively rejected its arguments earlier this year.
We need even more blocks and censorship. It will help to increase the development of new layers on top of the current Internet which will make such attempts unuseable. Censorship has always been nothing more than a small roadblock; in the long run, it has never been a successful solution to any problem.