UK considers allowing courts to enjoin sites hosting 'substantial' amount of infringing stuff -- Via guardian.co.uk [Quote]
Instead of sweeping new powers that threatened sweeping alterations to British copyright law, the Lib Dems added a clause that gives extra oversight to the high court.
The new proposal – which was passed in the House of Lords by 165 votes to 140 – gives a high court judge the right to issue an injunction against a website accused of hosting a "substantial" amount of copyright infringing material, potentially forcing the entire site offline
via guardian.co.uk
