BT faces a court order to block access to a website accused of illegally sharing movies.

The European branch of the Motion Picture Association has asked a court to order the ISP to block access to Newzbin2, a Usenet search tool that it accuses of hosting copyright content.

A British court shut down the original Newzbin in March 2010 after a complaint from the MPA, but a second version with the same code and domain name has since cropped up.

While Newzbinz's original operators claim they have nothing to do with Newzbin2, the head of MPA Europe Chris Marcich told The Guardian the resurrected site "flies in the face of the previous judgement by the High Court".

The MPA applied for the injunction under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, which the UK inherited from an EU directive.

"Like all other content providers, we need cooperation from key stakeholders to ensure that a legitimate content market can flourish," Marcich said.

BT has yet to say how it intends to respond. "We can confirm that we have received the papers from the MPA and are reviewing them," a spokesperson told PC Pro. "We will respond in due course."


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I'm a bit baffled that they're seemingly only asking this of BT (it's idiotic no matter what, but there you go), or am I missing something in the way these particular groups are run?

So it will only really impact on BT customers?