It seems that Sky Broadband has received a court order to block an illegal downloads facilitating website, also known as Newzbin2, which BT has already been banning since July.

As a quick reminder, last summer the High Court of Justice forced BT to block the website, after the Motion Picture Association (MPA) won an injunction against the telecoms giant.

A short time after that, an array of ISPs including Virgin Media, Sky and TalkTalk have admitted receiving letters from the MPA asking them to mimic BT's steps.

Sky Broadband issued a statement saying:

"We have received a court order requiring us to block access to this illegal website (Newzbin2), which we did on 13th December, 2011.

"Moving forward, as and when clear and legally robust evidence of copyright theft is presented, we will take appropriate action in respect to site blocking, which will include complying with court orders."

Other major broadband providers should also expect similar mail in their letterboxes.

It has also been said that a lot of BT users already found ways to access the website despite the block.

An array of ISPs and industry insiders has been against this move as according to them it had limited effect and was too costly.

Instead, they suggested looking at reasons why people were downloading illegally in the first place.