74 additional piracy websites blacklisted in Australia

THE BATTLE RAGES ON.

Late last year, entertainment rights-holders Village Roadshow and Foxtel spearheaded an attack on piracy websites, resulting in the Federal Court ruling that all Australian ISP’s were to “take reasonable steps to disable access” to five popular piracy sites, including The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, and more. Village Roadshow is at it again, this time enlisting the help of six other film studios to file a mammoth injunction against a further 74 sites linked with online piracy. As the previous case did not grant the rights-holders a rolling injunction, each new addition to the block list has to be made in a separate injunction such as this.

Among the newly-targeted sites are Demonoid, Bitsnoop, Limetorrents, ExtraTorrent and MegaShare, as well as piratebay.to, an alternative domain for The Pirate Bay, alongside a number of Putlocker domains. The requests have been specifically aimed at Telstra, Optus, TPG and Vocus, as well as these ISPs’ subsidiaries although, as the previous case ruled that the onus is on the rights-holders to pay for the blocks themselves, Village Roadshow proposes it pays $50 per domain blocked.