If you only listen to extremists, you would think that website blocking will lead to the destruction of the internet as we know it. A year ago, this blog wrote how courts in three different countries had ordered website blocking, and yet the internet failed to spontaneously self-destruct. In the ensuing year, it seems that the internet does not behave any differently than it did before. Recently released is this study that shows that not only does site blocking work, but the internet remains unscathed. Nova Southeastern University's Copyright Officer, Stephen Carlisle, J.D., examines Website Blocking Revisited: The Effect of the UK November 2014 Blocks on Consumer Behavior by researchers Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang, which makes an in-depth analysis of consumer behavior in the United Kingdom following the court ordered site blocking of 53 websites.
