The Pirate Bay may soon be blocked in the UK

The Pirate Bay may soon be blocked in the UK after the country's High Court ruled that the site actively promotes copyright infringement.

Internet service providers in the UK may soon be forced to block access to file-sharing giant The Pirate Bay, after the British High Court ruled that the website and its users engage in large-scale copyright infringement, reports the Guardian. Members of the British music industry are pushing for The Pirate Bay’s blockage.

“In my judgment, the operators of [The Pirate Bay] do authorise its users’ infringing acts of copying and communication to the public. They go far beyond merely enabling or assisting,” wrote Justice Richard Arnold, who handed down the decision. “I conclude that both users and the operators of [The Pirate Bay] infringe the copyrights of the claimants … in the UK.”

Justice Arnold continued, saying that the operators of The Pirate Bay “take no steps to prevent infringement,” but instead “actively encourage it and treat any attempts to prevent it (judicial or otherwise) with contempt.”

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