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Originally Posted by HarryT
... which is absolutely the right thing to do. These are criminal sites, and the blocking is done as the result of court cases in which the sites concerned have every opportunity to defend themselves, but choose not to do so.
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The only defendents were ISPs. As far as I can see there was no attempt to contact any of the sites involved, and the only information about them provided was by the BPI.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2013/379.html
I'm not really sure how Chancery Judges operate, but from the number of mentions of Pirate Bay in this case I would guess it was the blocking of that site that set a precedent here and allowed this one to be fast-tracked? Which would mean there will be a lot more of these blocking rulings coming up in the near future.
I'd also point out (again) that mobileread.com also facilitates copyright violation in the UK. I doubt any disclaimers saying "only download if you are legally entitled in your country" would suffice as a defence, even if the site were allowed to put forward a case.