Delhi HC says piracy injunctions cannot give copyright owners unilateral blocking powers

The Delhi High Court has held that internet service providers (ISPs) and domain name registrars (DNRs) cannot determin e whether a website is a “rogue website” and block it at the request of copyright owners . Instead, they may only carry out a technical verification to confirm whether a newly identified website is a mirror, redirect, or alphanumeric version of an already blocked website. The ruling came on July 27 in a copyright suit filed by Home Box Office (HBO)