Today’s judgment relates to a hearing in late June 2016.”įoxtel chief executive Peter Tonagh welcomed the court’s decision, declaring piracy does ‘great damage’ to Australia’s content and creative industries. “For entirely new websites, however, copyright owners will need to initiate separate proceedings under S115A seeking orders covering those new websites and the time taken for the injunction to grant will depend on the speed with which the court hands down judgment. “In essence, copyright owners can file proposed orders with the court to extend the orders to these new locations, and provided the ISPs do not object within a seven-day period and the court otherwise has no concerns, the court will grant the orders,” she said.
There has also been a broad decline in piracy across the past year, with a proliferation of streaming services like Foxtel Play, Stan and Netflix offering legitimate options and a plethora of legal online content.Īshurst partner Anita Cade, who specialises in intellectual property and media law, said the Federal Court ruling allowed for copyright owners to extend the scope of current orders where the same website pops up under a new domain name, IP address of url. The Pirate Bay has been blocked in the UK since 2012 but the country has regularly been in the top three markets globally for internet users pirating Game of Thrones, with numbers that are even higher than where the site isn’t blocked. However, some questions have been raised about the effectiveness of site blocking overseas. “That’s the world it will be if we don’t stop these criminals because there will be no model to produce feature films or quality TV.” “Do we want a world where there’s not going to be Red Dog, or a Muriel’s Wedding? “These are people that employ nobody, they pay no tax and they steal product,” he said. Mr Burke said more than 1 million Australian jobs depended on copyright protection and he was pleased the court had recognised the damage being inflicted by pirate websites. “It’s been deployed very successfully in the UK and 40 other countries.” “We have now been given the mechanism by which we can act and use this weapon to bring down these criminal websites that are just stealing our product,” Village Roadshow co-chief executive Graham Burke told The Australian on Thursday night. The sites included in the blocking order are The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and SolarMovie. The rights holders have also been ordered to pay the ISPs’ legal costs.
Justice Nicholas ordered Foxtel to pay Optus $1500 for compliance costs, and $50 per domain blocked to Telstra and TPG, while Village Roadshow will pay M2, Telstra and TPG $50 per domain blocked. The ISPs must prevent Australian users from accessing torrent sites, which let users illegally download TV shows and movies, but the copyright owners will have to foot the bill of blocking the sites.
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