{"id":92196,"date":"2022-07-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=92196"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:46:09","slug":"ee-mobile-network-block-access-to-piracy-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/ee-mobile-network-block-access-to-piracy-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"EE first mobile network to block access to piracy sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Image Credit: Media Associates International<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">Yesterday on July 12th the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) secured an expansion of the UK&#8217;s regime for blocking music piracy sites and apps after a long campaign.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The BPI estimates that online piracy is costing the music industry\u00a0the equivalent of \u00a3200m\u00a0a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a long while cases in the UK\u2019s High Court have led to judgements that have forced fixed-line broadband ISPs to block over 70 sites and apps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include file sharing Torrent sites, streaming sites, Sci-Hub and sites that sell counterfeit goods. However, these blocks did not apply to mobile operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now that&#8217;s changing and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" class=\"underline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2022\/07\/12\/uk-mobile-operators-to-begin-blocking-access-to-piracy-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EE is the first to begin blocking<\/a><\/strong><\/span> because mobile networks are much more capable than they were when the first blocking orders were ruled ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Mobile data connections are faster and more reliable than ever, and a quarter of people now connect to the internet over 3G, 4G and 5G rather than broadband and wi-fi. That growth brings with it the risk of increased music piracy.<\/p><cite>BPI general counsel Kiaron Whitehead<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The BPI confirmed the imposition of the blocking of pirate music sites and apps to users of mobile networks, starting with EE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EE is already blocking around 75 pirate music sites in their fixed line network at the BPI\u2019s request. Now they will have to apply this to their mobile network too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" class=\"underline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/07\/rights-holders-force-uk-mobile-operators-to-block-piracy-sites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">providers usually introduce these blocks with network-level methods<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Therefore by using Virtual Private Networks (VPN), third-party encrypted DNS servers and Proxy Servers, digital pirates can still work around these restristrictions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we can&#8217;t expect these blocks to stop all those actively seeking to download content via piracy sites. But we can expect them to discourage casual infringement by a dramatic margin for those who may give up without trying more technical means of circumvention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\" class=\"underline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is your track release ready? RouteNote will distribute your music globally and you&#8217;ll keep 85% of all revenue.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on July 12th the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) secured an expansion of the UK&#8217;s regime for blocking music piracy sites and apps after a long campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":92201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11109],"tags":[4683],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EE first mobile network to block access to piracy sites - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/ee-mobile-network-block-access-to-piracy-sites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EE first mobile network to block access to piracy sites - 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