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Accessing pirate streaming sites in the UK just got a lot harder thanks to Cloudflare's country-wide block. This goes beyond ISP-level blocks, so switching to a VPN may not yield any results.

After the sports streaming world, the movie industry also believes VPNs and other intermediary services must cooperate in blocking online piracy.

Newzbin2 has closed its virtual doors a year and a quarter after courts ordered UK ISPs to block the link-sharing site.

A new voluntary scheme is being proposed in the UK which would punish copyright infringing sites and boost links to sites that have licenses to sell content.

BT has been asked to block access to The Pirate Bay after a court recently ruled that the ISP must cut off its users' access to filesharing site Newzbin2.

The High Court has ruled that a judgement ordering BT to block Newzbin2, a site known for distributing pirated content, is valid.

The news that judge has ruled that BT must block a site known to be illegally distributing films and music has prompted a slew of reactions from the industry, ranging from euphoria to fear.

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has won a court injunction to force BT to block Newzbin2, a site that peddles illegal film and music downloads to its members.

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is looking to the courts for an injunction to force BT to use its child abuse site blocking tool against a file-sharing website.