The decision in the case was published on 10 January 2012, and involved a woman who had experienced blackmail and harassment after sexually explicit pictures of her taken on a mobile phone camera were uploaded to BitTorrent file-sharing websites.
While she was at university in June 2008, the woman, who was referred to in the court documents as AMP, discovered that her mobile phone had been lost or stolen.
AMP's solicitors used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove some of the links from U.S. based search engine results.
Mr. Justice Ramsey granted the woman involved anonymity, and ruled that the Persons Unknown who were seeding (i.e. uploading) the files in question would be breaking the law, and that the IP Address of a seeder could be traced by a court order.
[2] The case was believed to be the first time that a court had granted an injunction prohibiting the downloading of specific files shared via BitTorrent technology.