Britain continues to block access to "pirate" sites



    It seems that access to various sites ( for example, Wikipedia ) is being closed not only in Russia and the CIS countries. In Britain, record companies continue to struggle with their worst enemies - sites that distribute music, software, games and movies for free. In other words, the British Music Trading Association (BPI) yesterday sent a letter to major UK providers asking them to block access to resources such as Fenoppy, H33t and Kickass Torrents.

    The letter was received by organizations such as BT, Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, O2 Broadband, EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) and TalkTalk. BPI asks these organizations to block access to the above resources until Christmas (Catholic, of course). According to representatives of the association, these sites, like The Pirate Bay (access to the resource was closed in this country a little earlier ), make money on distributing pirated files that are distributed without the permission of the musicians, writers and producers who created these works.

    Of course, BPI considers these sites "threatening the growth of the country's music industry." The Pirate Bay, I remind you, is blocked in Britain by providers such as Virgin, BT, Everything Everywhere, Sky Broadband, Talk Talk, BE and O2.

    Repeatedly blocking this resource has been criticized, considering such measures "short-term and ineffective." However, BPI continues to act in this direction and further, trying to block more or less large torrent servers and file sharing in the country.

    Via musicweek

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