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Originally Posted by Turtle91
ISP stands for Internet SERVICE provider, not Internet SEARCH provider 
So why would they take internet service providers to court. They don't have any control over someone who uses the internet illegally. That would be like suing the guys who build and maintain our road network because someone had their evil lair connected to a road somewhere in the world and people could use roads to get to those evil lairs. |
If you go with this analogy, the court requests that the road to the evil lair should be blocked.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The ISP's were not "taken to court" in the sense of being accused of having done anything wrong. What's happened here is a legal process that's been established to allow a rights holder to request that a specific web site be blocked, in cases where the site itself is outside the jurisdiction of the court, and the site has a proven record of infringing the right holder's intellectual property rights. A separate legal application is required for each site for which a blocking order is requested - this isn't any kind of a blanket process.
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But normally you would have to prove the infringement by taking them to court, and this process bypasses the possibility of the websites to defend themselves. And just because a separate legal application is required for each site
now, doesn't mean that this will always be a requirement.