UK/IL-2023-000082
Site-blocking interim blocking order obtained July 2023 - order given 2023-11-17
- The Hon Mr Justice Meade
- Sky UK Ltd and British Telecommunications plc and others
- Claim IL-2023-000082
- BunnyStream, CatIPTV, EnigmaStreams, GenIPTV, GoTVMix, IPTVMAIN
Notification provisions
The November 2023 order is significant as it introduces a notification requirement:
12 Where the Applicant or its appointed agents notify an IP address for Dynamic Blocking as a Target Server in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Order, they must within a reasonable period of the first occasion when that IP address is notified (being no later than the end of the Monitoring Period) send to the hosting provider associated with the IP address an electronic notice which contains the following information:
(a) that access to the IP address has been blocked in the United Kingdom by court order;
(b) the identity of the party who obtained this Order;
(c) a link to an internet location from which the public version of this Order may be accessed; and
(d) a statement that affected server operators have the right to apply to the Court to discharge or vary the Order.
13 Within 10 working days of this Order being implemented by a Respondent, that Respondent shall take reasonable steps to publish a statement to its customers (identified in relation to it in Schedule 5) in electronic form which contains the following information:
(a) that access to a number of (unidentified) servers associated with infringing Channel Footage, and the Target Websites, has been blocked by court order;
(b) the identity of the party who obtained this Order; and
(c) a statement that affected users have the right to apply to the Court to discharge or vary the Order.
See
- Sky Obtains Novel Injunction to Prevent Piracy of Live Sports & ‘House of the Dragon’, TorrentFreak 2023-07-31
- Sky’s Recent IPTV Blocking Injunction Isn’t Unusual, It’s Extraordinary. TorrentFreak 2023-11-25
- November 2023 order available via Lumen