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Ian Mill QC, instructed by Forbes Anderson Free, successfully applied on behalf of the UK record industry against the five main UK retail internet service providers for website blocking orders (under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988) in relation to 21 websites using the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, which enable their users to download and make unlicensed copies of the Claimants’ copyright sound recordings. Arnold J delivered judgment on this application on 23 October 2014. 

The full judgment can be read here:

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