UK Piracy Blocklist Expands With Megashare, Viooz, Watch32 and Zmovie

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[url="http://torrentfreak.com/images/stop-blocked.jpg"][img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/stop-blocked.jpg[/img][/url]The list of websites that are blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement is getting longer and longer.

This week a new High Court ruling orders BT, Sky, Virgin Media, O2, EE and TalkTalk to block access to [url="http://megashare.info/"]Megashare[/url], [url="http://viooz.co/"]Viooz[/url], [url="http://watch32.com/"]Watch32[/url] and [url="http://zmovie.co/"]Zmovie[/url].

Through the sites users can stream Hollywood movies directly, or via links to third-party sites such as Vidspace or Videohub. Viooz is the largest of the quartet and is listed among the [url="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/viooz.co#trafficstats"]500 most visited[/url] sites in the UK.

The ruling comes after Hollywood studios filed a complaint that remained uncontested by the ISPs. Because the ISPs have given up on defending their position in court, it is now a mere formality for copyright holders to have a pirate site banned.

Represented by FACT and the Motion Picture Association, several major movie studios decided to ask for the blockades after their inquiries to the owners of the sites remained unanswered.

“FACT and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) wrote to four websites asking them to stop infringing creative content. Collectively, these sites provide access to an enormous collection of films with no permission from the copyright owners. FACT, supported by the MPA, therefore took this court action,” [url="http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/"]FACT[/url] told TF.

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