NIPC Law

Author Judicial Office UK  Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source  Wikipedia Commons   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Miles)  Young Turks Recordings Ltd ad others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [2021] EWHC 410 (Ch) (25 Feb 2021) This case appears to be the first decision in the UK on  "stream ripping ".   It took the form of an application by the British sound recording industry for orders requiring the 6 largest internet service providers in the United Kingdom to block their subscribers' access to a number of stream ripping sites under s.97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988  ("CDPA")  or alternatively s .37 Senior Courts Act 1981.  Background The claimants and defendants, in this case, were the same as in  Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [ 2021] EWHC 409 (Ch) which I discussed in  Blocking Orders - Capitol Records v British Telecommunications Plc ...

Royal Courts of Justice Author DCastor   Public Domain Dedication   Source Wikipedia, Royal Courts of Justice Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Miles) Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [2021] EWHC 409 (Ch) (25 Feb 2021 This was an application by representatives of the British sound recording industry for an order under s.97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 requiring the 6 largest internet service providers in the UK accounting for 91% of the fixed-line internet market to block their subscribers' access to a website known as "NitroFlare" on the grounds that that site infringed the claimants' copyrights on a massive scale.  The application came on before Mr Justkce Miles on 3 Feb 2021. In  Capitol Records and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [ 2021] EWHC 409 (Ch), which he handed down on 25 Feb 2021, he grated the claimants' application. The Legislation S.97A provides: "(1) The Hig...