The England and Wales High Court has ordered that Internet service providers in the UK must block access to The Pirate Bay. The High Court ruled in February that the site and its users were in violation of copyright law and followed with the court order Monday commanding ISPs to restrict access to the site.

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The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday shuttered Megaupload, a popular file-sharing website, charging seven of its executives with engaging in an international criminal enterprise based on copyright infringement. Federal authorities called it one of the largest criminal copyright cases in U.S history.

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SOPA opponents — that is, the people and organizations lining up against the Stop Online Piracy Act — clearly still have their work cut out for them. At the same time, there are signs that the massive protest against the bill is having some effect.
The bill’s chief sponsor, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, suggested in an interview published Thursday that he had no intention of backing down.

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Tech heavyweights such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga are lining up in opposition to a copyright enforcement bill that will be the subject of a hearing in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday: the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The companies sent a letter to key members of both congressional chambers.

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A coalition of film studios, record labels and media entities led by the UK record industry lobby group BPI recently sent a letter to British Internet service provider BT demanding that the company block access to The Pirate Bay website. The group said that if BT doesn’t act within two weeks, the matter will proceed to court.

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