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In February 2008, the Ministry of Information and Culture ordered ISPs to block 20 torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay, with the aim of blocking all torrent sites. ISP United Networks notified "The Ministry of information has today sent us a letter announcing they will be blocking all Torrent sites. This is due to piracy laws of the State ...
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
In 2020 the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of ordering ISPs to block access to the IP-addresses and URLs of The Pirate Bay. [182] In 2021, a group of ISPs including KPN, Ziggo and T-Mobile signed a binding agreement to block sites that any of these ISPs were ordered to block by a court of justice for infringing on copyright. Similar ...
On November 18, 2019, the Federal Court of Canada approved an interlocutory injunction requiring Canadian ISPs to block a pirate IPTV service. [63] Project Cleanfeed Canada (cybertip.ca) decides what sites are child pornographic in nature and transmits those lists to the voluntarily participating ISPs who can then block the pages for their users.
April 2012 saw the UK high court order five leading UK ISPs to block access to Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay. [16] The case was brought after the ISPs refused to block the site voluntarily [17] and after one ISP was ordered to block a similar site Newzbin2 in July 2011. [18]
In response to the increasing number of file sharing related blocks, a number of proxy aggregator sites, e.g. torrentproxies.com, have become popular. [191] In addition to the following, proxy sites designed to circumvent blocks have been secretly blocked by ISPs, driving users to proxy comparison sites.
FMovies was a series of file streaming websites that host links and embedded videos, allowing users to stream or download movies for free. The sites have been subject to legal action in various jurisdictions on grounds of copyright infringement and piracy .
The Digital Economy Act 2017 placed the requirement for ISP filtering into law and introduced a requirement for ISPs to block pornographic sites with inadequate age verification. [35] Proposals to create a single digital market for European Union (EU) member states include rules for net neutrality. These rules require that all internet traffic ...