British judge doesn’t just like the cut of Newzbin 2′s jib, orders BT to dam it

Shiver-me-timbers, it feels like the movie studios’ latest legal broadside just scored an instantaneous hit against the gigantic bad pirate ship. A UK judge has ordered telecoms giant BT to dam its subscribers from visiting Newzbin 2, a domain which aggregates Usenet downloads, at the simple basis that BT knows a number of its customers are using the the location to breach copyright law and therefore has an obligation to forestall them. This counts as an unprecedented victory for the Movie Association, who brought the case, and it potentially arms them with a brand new weapon to force ISPs to dam other sites in future. Could that be Newzbin 3 we spy at the horizon?

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