We have been ordered to block certain sites that allow users to generate downloadable audio or video files of YouTube videos (known as stream ripping services).
In November 2025, a group of music copyright owners and licensees including Arista Records LLC, Atlantic Recording Corp., Elektra Entertainment Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Canada Inc., Warner Records Inc., and Zomba Recording LLC sued several stream ripping services in the Federal Court of Canada. As part of that application, they asked the court to issue an order forcing a list of Canadian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to certain sites associated with stream ripping services. On June 15, 2026, the Federal Court issued a 2-year blocking order (File Number T-4795-25). The Plaintiffs can update the list of sites that are blocked from time to time. Since the original court order won't get updated as the list of blocked sites changes, we're posting the latest list of blocked sites here.
The plaintiffs specifically named TekSavvy as one of the ISPs on the order, so we are required to block the listed sites.
This order is similar to earlier orders, such as a 2019 order against GoldTV site and a 2024 order against the Soap2Day streaming service. TekSavvy opposed the first order of this type in Canada (GoldTV) and appealed it, first to the Federal Court of Appeal and finally to the Supreme Court of Canada. We appealed that order because, among other things, we see blocking orders as a grave violation of network neutrality and a fundamental change to what we do as an ISP. The principles of common carriage and network neutrality mean ISPs carry traffic to and from end users in as neutral a fashion as possible. All ISPs should defend the basic principle that we are not liable for or responsible for the content of the traffic on our networks. Unfortunately, our appeals were not successful and, as a result, there has been a proliferation of site blocking orders.
Contacting the applicants
If you have concerns or questions about the site-blocking order, details about how to contact the music companies who applied for the order are available at their notification website: https://2026fc802.com/.
Technical information
Finally, to ensure transparency, here is some technical information about how we are doing this blocking. Under the stream ripping services order, ISPs can use DNS blocking or DNS rerouting to prevent end users from accessing the blocked sites. TekSavvy is using DNS rerouting by changing TekSavvy's DNS server to point these domains directly to an informational page provided by the applicant music companies, instead of where other neutral and unaffected DNS servers point.
