Creative Industries ask BT to block The Pirate Bay

Building on the Newzbin2 precedent, music industry trade body the BPI, supported by the UK creative industries, has written to BT to ask it to block The Pirate Bay voluntarily. If BT will not agree to block voluntarily, then it has been asked to consent to a court order.

The Pirate Bay is the world's largest BitTorrent site, enabling and encouraging the mass illegal distribution of copyrighted content including music, movies, TV programmes, games and publications. It is run on ...

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