ThePirateBay and Four Other Websites to be Blocked in Australia

Australian internet providers have been ordered by the Federal Court to block The Pirate Bay and four other websites on grounds of copyright infringement. The ruling was announced in the afternoon today and with this Australia received its first ever, successful site-blocking case.

Read: ThePirateBay.se is now ThePirateBay.org

Internet companies have received 15 days deadline to completely block BitTorrent websites. The other four websites are Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and Solar Movie. Solar Movie is a video streaming website and not a torrent website. It comes to a big shock for movie lovers in Australia because the Sweden-based torrent site The Pirate Bay is among the world’s largest torrent files host however lately the site has been facing several issues.

Remember, the Pirate Bay was forced to give up their .SE domain name after a Swedish Court ruled that the two domain servers, ThePirateBay.se and P irateBay.se will be taken from the company and since then ThePirateBay.se is working as ThePirateBay.org.

Court wants authorities to “take reasonable steps to disable access”

Read: Kickass Torrents Goes Down; Owner Arrested

It must be noted that Village Roadshow and Foxtel filed the case in the Federal Court this February. They applied to get the sites blocked or to be made inaccessible across Australia.

Now with the ruling announced and the internet service providers have received the orders, users in Australia will get to see a warning page when they try to log on to any of the abovementioned websites. The warning page will be hosted by the rights holder or the ISP.

The Federal Court orders that rights holders must pay for Aussie ISPs to block piracy websites (up to $50 per domain) #siteblock — Claire Reilly (@reillystyley) December 15, 2016

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