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Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP

Posted by samzenpus on from the that-should-do-it dept.

daedae writes "The Motion Picture Association (MPA), which represents studios including Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney, have filed suit in the UK against BT, Britain's largest ISP. The studios are asking for an injunction which would force BT to block access to Newzbin, on the grounds of massive losses to Usenet piracy."

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  1. Would it really have hurt.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    to have given an accurate summary? They are not asking for an injunction again Newzbin, that site was sued into oblivion. They are asking for an injunction against Newzbin2 which has arisen to take its place. TFA you submitted says just that.

    Actually I can't hold you to that, the article is horridly written.

    "The Motion Picture Association (MPA), which represents studios including Twentieth Century Fox and Walt Disney, is urging a judge to grant an order forcing telecoms group BT to cut off access to the Newzbin website."

    "The MPA won a court battle against Newzbin last year and the site was taken offline."

    "But it reopened abroad under the name "Newzbin2" and is run by anonymous operators, compelling the MPA to take the unusual step of trying to force BT to block the site."

    This is why you hire editor's to proof these things children. Someone should have slapped this writer for contradicting himself within his own story.