“They’re easy to implement but they’re very easy to circumvent: there are hundreds of ways around them,” explains Trefor Davies of the systems that block access to file-sharing websites, often seen as the enemy of copyright owners. As a council member at the UK’s Internet Service Providers Association, Davies knows how easy it is for infringers to beat the protective systems.
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1 December 2011 Internet service provider (ISP) British Telecom (BT) has refused to block the file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, after a written request to do so from UK music trade body the BPI.