Thread: ISP Ordered to block access to web site...in the UK
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Old 07-30-2011, 12:11 PM   #50
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
I am not okay with courts ordering providers to block certain sites. It's a slippery slope -- heck, Mobile Read could be blocked because it has "copyrighted works" on it. (I'm referring to those "only download this if you're in Canada" works in the library.) I'm not in Canada -- I don't want MR blocked just because some publishing company gets a bug up their butt.
It is blocked because they have convinced a judge it should be, rather than just they want it to be, and the entire site is only blocked because the entire site is infringing. If only a small proportion had been, then they could have blocked just that proportion.
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