An injunction issued by an Indian court in a copyright infringement case has forced Indian Internet service providers to block access to the video-sharing sites Vimeo and DailyMotion, Bittorrent-tracker The Pirate Bay, text-sharing site Pastebin and a number of other websites. In response, members of Anonymous mounted a denial of service attack on the websites of the Indian Supreme Court and the Indian National Congress political party. As of 2pm GMT, both sites are back up.

The temporary restraining order (PDF) was issued by The High Court of Judicature at Madras in response to a lawsuit by the Chennai, India based company Copyrightlabs (whose site appears to have been taken down for maintenance) over the sharing of the movie "3" online. It orders ISPs to stop sharing of the film "by copying, recording, reproducing, camcording or communicating, or allowing others to to communicate" the contents of the film in any form.

Meanwhile, the denial of service attack on The Pirate Bay Ars examined on May 17—which lasted for over a day—has ended. ZDNet reports that credit for the attack was claimed by a hacker going by the name Nyre. The hacker, who also claims to be a former supporter of Anonymous, posted his displeasure with the quality of porn on The Pirate Bay just before the DDoS attack started.