UK service to block Kickass Torrents, H33T, Fenopy

PanARMENIAN.Net - The UK's leading service providers have been ordered to block three more piracy websites at the order of the High Court.

Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy will no longer be accessible in the territory after the court sided with music industry body the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Digital Spy reported citing BBC News.

"The growth of digital music in the UK is held back by a raft of illegal businesses commercially exploiting music online without permission," said BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor.

"Blocking illegal sites helps ensure that the legal digital market can grow and labels can continue to sign and develop new talent."

However, critics of the BPI's tactics have pointed out that similar measures taken against torrent website The Pirate Bay last year have failed to stop users accessing the service.

"The British music industry has nothing positive to show from their site blocks and personal legal threats," said Pirate Party UK leader Loz Kaye.

"Looking at sales figures from 2012, you can't draw the conclusion that stopping access to the Pirate Bay did anything to help artists. The UK has now handed the power over what we see on the internet to corporate lobbyists."

The UK's leading internet service providers are yet to confirm whether they will comply with the order.