On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:56:00PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
Is there any reason that this cannot be done now, ie before the trial since, as far as I am aware, many of the sites being blocked have not been taken to court and 'proof' is on the assertions on the copyright holders.
This is not an entirely frivolous point. Many companies get away with GPL infringement because the FLOSS authors do not have the legal muscle to take them to court. Having their web sites 'banned' by assertion would be very interesting.
oo now that's *very* interesting. esp. if presented by the SFLC or FSFE on behalf of clients, it's a standard "copyright theft" issue so should be just as easy a case to make as any "music or video" theft.
I was wrong ... a court order is needed. Shame, it still favours large corporates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kingdom#Copyright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_United_Kingdom#...