UK Mobile Operator Begins Blocking Pirate Music Sites
U.K. telco EE will block pirate music sites and apps on its mobile network, the British Phonographic Industry said Tuesday. High Court rulings over the past decade against the country's main fixed broadband providers, the BT Group (of which EE…
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is a part), Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media, led to the blocking of over 70 illegal sites and apps. EE's move extends that to mobile networks and is a "significant development," said BPI, which estimates online piracy costs the recording industry 200 million pounds ($237 million) a year.