28 Apr 2010 lkcl   » (Master)

UK Digital Economy Act

17 Power to make provision about injunctions preventing access to locations on the internet

(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about the granting by a court of a blocking injunction in respect of a location on the internet which the court is satisfied has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with an activity that infringes copyright.

(2)“Blocking injunction” means an injunction that requires a service provider to prevent its service being used to gain access to the location.

well then: all free software web sites such as tor, sourceforge, github, gitorious, openvpn and so on, are all fucked, then, aren't they.

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