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  • Court Orders ISPs to Block “Spider-Man” Piracy… Before it Happens

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    The New Delhi High Court has handed down a broad blocking order that aims to stop piracy before it happens. Following an application by Sony Pictures, more than 100 pirate sites will be preemptively blocked by Indian ISPs to prevent 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' piracy. The blocking order also applies to domain names that have yet to be registered.

     

    In recent years, website blocking has become one of the most widely-used anti-piracy enforcement mechanisms in the world.

     

    ISPs in several dozen countries prevent subscribers from accessing a variety of ‘pirate’ sites, often in response to a court order.

     

    These orders often started as basic injunctions, requiring providers to block one or more domain names. Today, many courts issue dynamic injunctions too, allowing rightsholders to add new domain names or IP-addresses, without returning to court.

     

    Dynamic blocking orders are also common in India with courts noting that the flexible approach helps to combat pirate site ‘hydras’. India is also known for another progressive site blocking strategy, one that targets piracy before it happens.

    Preemptive Spider-Man Piracy Blockade

    This week the High Court in New Delhi granted a site blocking order requested by Sony Pictures. This injunction aims to protect the upcoming release of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” which is scheduled to premiere in theaters later this week.

     

    As far as we know, no pirated versions of the film are currently available online. Sony doesn’t mention any in its application either but expects rogue copies to appear on known pirate sites in the near future. To limit this potential piracy, these sites should be blocked, the studio argued.

     

    The application lists 101 pirate sites including variants of The Pirate Bay, YTS, RARBG, LimeTorrents, Fmovies, Myflixer, 123movies and others. Many of these already share copies of the 2018 film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and are allegedly “in the process” of pirating the sequel too.

     

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    After reviewing the available evidence, Justice C Hari Shankar of the New Delhi High Court comments as follows:

     

    “The facts of the case as recited hereinabove indicate that the plaintiff’s copyright in the films ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ and ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ have/are in the process of being infringed and violated by the Defendants 1 to 101.”

    Mirrors and Copies are Covered

    The owners of the pirate sites were alerted to the proceeding last week but it appears that none have objected formally. As a result, Justice Shankar issued an order that prohibits the operators from making pirated copies of the Spider-Man films available to the public.

     

    In addition, Indian Internet providers are ordered to block access to the pirate sites’ listed domain names, as well as any proxies and mirrors that may come online in the future.

     

    “[The Internet providers] are directed to block access to the websites at S. Nos. 1 to 101, as well as any mirror/redirect/alphanumeric websites which appear to be associated with any of the said websites,” the order reads.

     

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    This leads to the intriguing situation that ISPs must block domain names, including those that have yet to be registered, to protect a film that is expected to be pirated in the future.

     

    These types of preemptive blocking orders are not new in India. Similar ones have been issued previously and there’s little doubt that rightsholders such as Sony will request more of them in the future.

     

     

    A copy of Justice C Hari Shankar’s order is available here (pdf). The full list of domain names mentioned in the order reads as follows:

     

    1) flixhd.cc
    2) www6.f2movies.to
    3) www2.movieorca.com
    4) moviekids.tv
    5) moviesnation.vip
    6) allmovieshub.party
    7) 1xbetmovies.bio
    8) hdtoday.tv
    9) hdtoday.ru
    10) 0123movie.net
    II) www5.himovies.to
    I2) bflix.gg
    13) thepiratebayIO.org
    I4) thepiratebay.party
    15) thepiratebay.org
    16) m.thepiratebayO.org
    17) thepiratebay3 .to
    18) fmovies.llc
    19) fmovies.hn
    20) fmovies.ps
    21) uhdmovies.bio
    22) psa.re
    23) medeberiyas.com
    24) proxyrarbg.org
    25) rarbgdata.org
    26) rarbgmirrored.org
    27) rarbgp2p.org
    28) rarbgproxied.org
    29) rarbgto.org
    30) rarbgunblocked.org
    31) rarbggo.to
    32) myflixer.vc
    33) myflixer.center
    34) filmkio.run
    35) hurawatch.cc
    36) wwwl.attacker.tv
    37) cataz.net
    38) soap2day.id
    39) soap2day.mn
    40) soap2day-online.com
    41) ww6.soap2day.day
    42) ww7.soap2dayhd.co
    43) Putlokemew.sb
    44) putlokemew.vc
    45) putlockers9.live
    46) aiofi lm.top
    47) watchseries.id
    48) watchseries.world
    49) watchserieshd.live
    50) watchserieshd.ru
    51) 123-movies.pics
    52) 123moviesite.one
    53) arc018.com
    54) bolly4u.cafe
    55) desiremovies.lat
    56) dopebox.se
    57) emovtes.si
    58) filmywap.com.pe
    59) flixtor.id
    60) goku.sx
    61) grantorrent.bz
    62) hdencode.org
    63) hexdownload.co’~
    64) hindmoviez.wiki
    65) katmovieshd.ms
    66) limetorrents.lol
    67) losmovies.ru
    68) membedl.com
    69) mobomoviez.fun
    70) movierulzhd.wiki
    71) movies7.io
    72) moviesj oy.plus
    73) moviesmod.co.in
    74) moviestowatch.tv
    75) nkiri.com
    76) Old3.rlsbb.cc
    77) onionplay.rs
    78) primewire.id
    79) projectfreetv.space
    80) sflix.se
    81) solarmovies.win
    82) solidtorrents.to
    83) swatchseries.biz
    84) tamilvip.city
    85) terbit2l.art
    86) tfpdl.seEmail:
    87) Tgx.rs
    88) theflixer.tv
    89) themovieflix.eu.com
    90) thenetnaija.net
    91) vegamovies.chat
    92) vhmovies.to
    93) vumoo.to
    94) watchsomuch.to
    95) ww1.123moviesto.cc
    96) wwl.streamm4u.ws
    97) ww4.solarmovie.to
    98) www3.yggtorrent.do
    99) xmovies8.fun
    100) yesmovies.lat
    101) yts.rs

     

     

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