"Sky follows BT in blocking Newzbin2"

The Register is reporting that Sky has followed BT, in blocking access to Newzbin2, following receipt of a court order.

The interesting part to me is that the copyright industry bothered to obtain a court order, rather than simply asking Sky, with threat of seeking a court order and pursuing Sky for costs if it did not comply voluntarily.

Given Arnold J's treatment of BT's attempted defence in dealing with costs in the original Newzbin2 technical measures decision, I would have expected the IAP to have feared an award of costs against it, and so complied voluntarily...