Thread: High Court orders British ISPs to block "The Pirate Bay"
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Old 03-08-2013, 01:47 PM   #484
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
Why were the ISPs listed as defendants? And if a separate legal application is required for each site, why were three different sites named?
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