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Ireland's Commercial court made a ruling today to the country's main ISP's; to close eight websites breaching Irish copyright law.

This ruling came from a legal action by the Motion Picture Association comprising of Hollywood's major Movie & TV Studios.

Full in depth story is in the link below

Court grants blocking order against websites which allow users stream and download film and TV content

Monday, January 15, 2018 - 04:31 pm

By Ann O’Loughlin

An association representing some of the worlds biggest TV and movie studios has secured a High Court injunction to block several websites involved in the downloading of films and television shows.

The injunction was granted at the Commercial Court today by Mr Justice Brian McGovern who said he was satisfied the websites in question had engaged in widespread infringement of the TV and movies studios copyright.

The were "significant public interest grounds" to grant the orders sought, the Judge said.

The orders, under the 2000 Copyright and Related Act, were sought by the Motion Pictures Association, which represents Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Disney, Columbia and Sony Pictures. They claimed the sites were breaching their copyright.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breaki...nt-822882.html