Over 53 Pirate Sites Are Now Blocked By Singapore’s IspsByGoran Spasojevic-May 21, 2018.752 Many big Singapore Isps blocked 53 pirate sites as a follow-up to the Mpaa case. This is part of a bigger campaign around the world to combat online piracy. Upon receiving much heat from the copyright holders in 2014, Singapore passed changes to the country’s copyright laws to allow piracy sites to be blocked by Isps. It took the authorities some time after passing those amendments to get up to speed with the online piracy issue. In 2016 Mpaa demanded that the Solarmovie.ph be the first pirate website blocked by the Isps as a result of the order of the High Court. After that there was a further big pause from earlier this year until this weekMpaa legal action. .753.753 Figure 1 Photo Courtesy of iBaroody According to Singapore law, before granting a blocking injunction for each website, the High Court has to test whether all the conditions are met. Websites such as YouTube, for example, involve infringements of copyright at some stage but their main purpose is not to infringe copyright. That’s why youTube is omitted from the list when blocking The Pirate Bay. It looks like Singapore has agreed to be a part of the online piracy fighting campaign around the world. This does not, of course, mean that users will not be able to find a way to stop a blocking injunction for these pages but it is a step in the right direction.