British authorities have banned another 53 torrent services, bringing the total number of banned pages up to 93.

The list includes BitSoup, IP Torrents, Isohunt, Sumotorrent, Torrentdb Torrentfunk and Rapid Moviez. Isohunt is a surprise because it was supposed to shut down. The torrent indexing site lost a court case against the Motion Picture Association of America and was left with a damages bill to the tune of $110m.

Chris Marcich, president of the European division of the Motion Picture Association, said: "Securing court orders requiring ISPs [internet service providers] to block access to illegal websites is an accepted and legitimate measure to tackle online copyright infringement.”

"It carefully targets sites whose sole purpose is to make money off the back of other people's content while paying nothing back into the legitimate economy."

On top of the use of torrents, pirates are also using cloud locker services to circumvent the law. These work in a similar manner to Dropbox and allow pirates to upload content into the cloud. The address is then shared on forums, allowing huge numbers of people to download the content before the site's owners are even aware that illegal content is being stored on their servers.