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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
There's lots of usenet indexing sites, not sure if this was the first of its kind or not. But setting a precedent would have been the main reason they went for such a small site over someone, shall we say, more widely known.
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The history is that the site was original hosted and run from the UK. The content owners won a UK court ruling shutting them down, but the site closed, only to reappear, but now hosted outside the UK. That is why this offshore site was chosen.
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2. The application is a sequel to a successful claim for copyright infringement brought by the Studios against Newzbin Ltd, which formerly operated an almost identical website located at the same uniform resource locator or URL (“the Newzbin1 website” or just “Newzbin1”). As explained in more detail below, Newzbin Ltd was found by Kitchin J to have infringed the Studios’ copyrights on a large scale: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp v Newzbin Ltd [2010] EWHC 608 (Ch), [2010] FSR 21 (“20C Fox v Newzbin”). He granted an injunction against Newzbin Ltd to restrain further infringements of the Studios’ copyrights. Subsequently the Newzbin1 website ceased operation. Shortly afterwards, however, the Newzbin2 website commenced operation at the same location. It operates in essentially the same manner as the previous website, and thus provides the means for continued large-scale infringement of the Studios’ copyrights. As described in more detail below, the operators of the Newzbin2 website are unknown, but the operation appears to have moved offshore. It is thus effectively beyond the reach of this court.
3. In these circumstances, the Studios contend that the only way in which they can obtain effective relief to prevent, or at least reduce the scale of, these infringements of their copyrights is by means of an order against BT (and thereafter the other ISPs) of the kind now sought.
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