In the wake of OFCOM’s publication of its Initial Obligations Code for the UK’s much-delayed Digital Economy Act, the government said it would remove a pair of controversial sections from the legislation. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said that following OFCOM’s findings that they would prove inefficient, sections 17 and 18 of the DEA – which relate to having copyright-infringing sites blocked at the ISP level – would be taken out completely. In practical terms though, they are being removed because they are no longer needed. A 2011 court case against Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 by the MPA showed that existing legislation could be used to have a site blocked by ISPs in the UK. A similar process was repeated earlier this year by the BPI against infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay.

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