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[bodyboarder]

The Federal Court has ordered internet companies to block five copyright-infringing websites, including torrent website The Pirate Bay.

Internet companies now have 15 business days to implement the blocks.

It is the first time the site-blocking laws have been used successfully in Australia, and is a win for copyright holders who have long wanted to see the end of the website.

The Federal Court handed down its judgement this afternoon, also ordering that internet service providers (ISPs) block similar bittorrent websites Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and streaming service SolarMovie.

While the two rights holders got what they wanted in a block, the Federal Court has not ordered what's known as a "rolling injunction".

That would have allowed new websites to be added without court approval or oversight.

http://abc.net.au/news/2016-12-15/federal-court-orders-pirate-bay-blocked-in-australia/8116912

 

[collige]

Net Neutrality is officially dead in Australia is more like it

 

[AColdDay]

Won't it just move to a different domain? Piracy seems pretty hard to stop tbh.

 

[Xe4]

There are way more than 5 pirating websites. Not that it matters if they got them all anyhow, more will pop up. This is only delaying the inevitable.

 

[DarkLordMalik]

What is dead may never die.

 

[killer rin]

Won't it just move to a different domain? Piracy seems pretty hard to stop tbh.

Hail Hydra?

Spoiler

Seriously though, they will just change domain and it'll be business as usual. Many a country and business has tried, all have failed

 

[Juke Joint Jezebel]

New mirrors, proxies and sites will be back up by the end of the month, guaranteed.

 

[FStop7]

VPN.

 

[devonodev]

Torrentz is listed, but has been down for quite a few months anyway.

Not sure how much this will change.

 

[yanipheonu]

What is dead may never die.

Piracy is dead, Long Live Piracy.

 

[bodyboarder]

Net Neutrality is officially dead in Australia is more like it

I'm sure it won't be abused.

 

[Ban Puncher]

 

[Hyperactivity]

Hah, they got rid of 5 sites and piracy is dead?

 

[JoeyJungle]

Net Neutrality is officially dead in Australia is more like it

edit: I'm wrong

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Hah, they got rid of 5 sites and piracy is dead?

that's the joke

 

[Frozenprince]

Torrentz isn't even around anymore.

 

[texhnolyze]

Yeah, good luck with that.

 

[bodyboarder]

Hah, they got rid of 5 sites and piracy is dead?

that's the joke

Bruce gets it!

 

[Subpar Scrub]

I don't pirate anything I can just buy from a physical or online store and even I know this won't achieve anything here. Too many mates who pirate almost every piece of media they consume from all over the net.

 

[remz]

Foxtel taking it to court to make everyone in Aus pay stupid amounts to watch GoT

 

[SolicitorPirate]

Oh no. Whatever will I do now.

 

[Jakten]

 

[deadlast]

If I have learned anything from my time on the internet, Piracy finds a way.

 

[rekameohs]

If only there were some way to Virtually create a type of Private Network or something

 

[Complistic]

Somewhere there's a bunch of old people who think this actually did something.

 

[chrisPjelly]

So do they have to import One Piece now?

 

[Dryk]

It could be DNS blocking, blocking IP addresses, URL blocking or any other technical methods which are mutually agreed to by ISPs and rights holders.

Most of those methods wouldn't really help

 

[Forerunner]

FIFA beat racism and Australia beat piracy. What a time to be alive!

 

[Jarrod38]

I guess Australia does kill everything.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

While the two rights holders got what they wanted in a block, the Federal Court has not ordered what's known as a "rolling injunction".

That would have allowed new websites to be added without court approval or oversight.

Instead, Foxtel or Village Roadshow will have to file and serve a new affidavit outlining the new website's domain name or IP address.

Hmm.

 

[Stallion Dan]

It's like companies don't know how the internet works.

 

[cress2000]

Balthier will soon fly in donning White Mage garb to cast Raise.

 

[ScribbleD]

You can't kill piracy by shutting down a few websites. The thread title betrays how nasty this has the potential to be, though. It just won't be that bad for pirates and torrent providers.

 

[mjontrix]

Hmm.

Everyone in Australia pirates, from police officers to lawyers to politicians. GOT, TWD are both too addicting for most people.

No-one sane is going to introduce a rolling injunction short of the politicians pushing something through parliament.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

Everyone in Australia pirates, from police officers to lawyers to politicians. GOT, TWD are both too addicting for most people.

No-one sane is going to introduce a rolling injunction short of the politicians pushing something through parliament.

It's not surprising the rampant piracy of those shows given the cost of Foxtel and an extra cost just to get HD content. They just don't seem to get it. We use Foxtel Go which from what I can tell is sub-SD. It also runs on Silverlight.

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Shouldn't they start with blocking Google? If there is any website out there that facilitates piracy, it's the numero uno search engine.

 

[CreepingFear]

Did they ban VPN's yet?

 

[99Luffy]

Torrents are old news anyways. File storage sites are so much more convenient.

 

[DaMan121]

Torrents? Pfft

 

[dreamcastmaster]

Shouldn't they start with blocking Google? If there is any website out there that facilitates piracy, it's the numero uno search engine.

Then Youtube.

 

[Shiggy]

Isn't everyone streaming movies and sites anyway? That's at least not illegal despite consumers not paying.

 

[Colin.]

It's been a thing over here in the UK for quite some time. Just a case of accessing these sites through proxy links, or making use of Tor or a VPN.

 

[Zushin]

Copyright holders are such dumb cunts in this country. Binding things like Game of Thrones exclusively to Foxtel that costs ~$50 per month after their price drop of course is going to make piracy rampart. I doubt this ruling will have much of an effect.

 

[danm999]

A good portion of Australians who pirate likely already have access to VPNs given the past few years they've been threatened with various three strike policies and speculative invoicing.

Might deter some neophytes but the people who want it will get it as long as a VPN costs less than Foxtel.

 

[saunderez]

A good portion of Australians who pirate likely already have access to VPNs given the past few years they've been threatened with various three strike policies and speculative invoicing.

Might deter some neophytes but the people who want it will get it as long as a VPN costs less than Foxtel.

Everyone I know uses Usenet. Torrents fell out of favour as soon as all of that stuff started happening.

 

[Shambalakan]

What about VPNs? There are lots of blocked websites in Iran, but people use VPN without any problem.

 

[danm999]

Everyone I know uses Usenet. Torrents fell out of favour as soon as all of that stuff started happening.

I know the Dallas Buyers Club case freaked a lot of people out even though it never went anywhere yeah.

 

[How About No]

 

[saunderez]

I know the Dallas Buyers Club case freaked a lot of people out even though it never went anywhere yeah.

Yeah that was definitely the impetus for at least a few people I know to stop using torrents. Ironically moves like this are doing little more than driving people to methods Village Roadshow/Foxtel et al. have no visibility of. It's easy to sit on a tracker and accumulate IP addresses, not so easy to see something being delivered over an SSL connection from a server in Europe.

 

[mjontrix]

Can't Trump the Pirates in Australia...

We've been born and bred for piracy since the days of dial-up. And now that NRL is boring, wallabies sucking at union, cricket is on FTA and v8 is zzz foxtel is done.