UK Courts Order ISPs To Block Popcorn Time

UK Courts Order ISPs To Block Popcorn Time

| Source: Torrentfreak Author: Mark Campbell

UK Courts Order ISPs To Block Popcorn Time

As the result of a ruling by the UK's High Court most UK IPS; BT, Virgin, Sky and EE are required to block access to 5 sites which offer the Popular Popcorn Time Software, a program which is commonly referred to by many as "Netflix for Pirates".

The domains which have been ordered to block five domains which belong to Porpcorn Time, including popcorntime.io, flixtor.me, popcorn-time.se and isoplex.isohunt.to. Other sites which will be blocked by the order the torrent and streaming sites watchonlineseries.eu, axxomovies.org, afdah.com and g2g.fm are also included in the court order.

The Judge that passed the order noted that the program and the sites in question serve no purpose legally, mentioning that they are mostly used to download or pirate copyrighted movies and TV shows.

“It is manifest that the Popcorn Time application is used in order to watch pirated content on the internet and indeed it is also manifest that that is its purpose. No-one really uses Popcorn Time in order to watch lawfully available content,”

“The point of Popcorn Time is to infringe copyright. The Popcorn Time application has no legitimate purpose,”

It is expected that all the ISPs which are included in the order will block the required sites within the next few weeks, thought for some people these sites may already be blocked.

You can join the discussion on the UK High Courts Blocking Access to the Popcorn Time Steaming Service for Pirates on the OC3D Forums.

The UK high Court has ordered that UK ISPs must block access to Popcorn Time. http://t.co/RaCth2vt6W pic.twitter.com/Sc27qdgxAd — OC3D (@OC3D) April 28, 2015 The UK high Court has ordered that UK ISPs must block access to Popcorn Time, a popular torrent and Streaming Site.http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/software/uk_courts_order_isps_to_block_popcorn_time/1 Posted by OC3D on Tuesday, 28 April 2015

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