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BT given fourteen days by High Court to block Newzbin2

by Kenny Hemphill on 26 October 2011 in News

BT has been given two weeks to implement the block on link aggregation site, Newzbin2, following a ruling in the High Court.

The block was originally ordered by a High Court judge in July. Now BT has been told that it must pay the cost of implementing it. The ISP intends to use its CleanFeed software, developed in conjunction with the Internet Watch Foundation, normally used to filter out child pornography. BT has previously said that it would not be straightforward to adapt CleanFeed so it could be used in this way.

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