More than 50 pirate websites to be blocked in Australia within days

[Allycat]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/more-than-50-pirate-websites-to-be-blocked-in-australia-within-days/news-story/d049c070d9b0ef956dbdeb9e45d7ca4b

 

PIRATES, you have been warned.

More than 50 pirate websites — illegally sharing movies and TV shows — will be blocked in Australia within days.

And anti-copyright theft group Creative Content Australia went further and warned individual movie pirates would be next to face courts, with plans to sue any Australian who “continues to download pirated content”.

The move comes after the Federal Court ruled in favour of filmmakers and pay-TV provider Foxtel in two separate cases yesterday.

 

The targeted internet service providers have 15 days to disable access to the online locations found to have been engaging in or facilitating copyright infringement.

The two cases in NSW Federal Court, brought by Roadshow Films and Foxtel, which is jointly owned by Telstra and News Corp, ordered internet service providers to block access to 59 websites and 127 web domains delivering access to copyright-infringing material.

The sites include PrimeWire, MegaShare, EZTV, Limetorrents, Project Free TV, and Watch Series.

In his judgment, Federal Court Justice John Nicholas said some sites acknowledged they were sponsoring theft and even provided tutorials on how to “frustrate any legal action”, showing “flagrant and reflect a blatant disregard for the rights of copyright owners”.

Creative Content Australia chairman Graham Burke said the new judgments would mean a total of 65 piracy sites and 340 domains would be blocked in Australia, in what could prove a significant blow for online piracy.

“This is a historic moment for Australia to have what is effectively 95 per cent of the criminal trade blocked,” he said.

“It’s making it harder (to pirate shows) and way riskier.”

Mr Burke, who also serves as co-chief executive officer for Village Roadshow, said Creative Content Australia would also use the opportunity to launch the country’s biggest anti-piracy education campaign, including TV ads in which actor Bryan Brown highlighted piracy risks, such as malware and identity theft.

[emosun]

in other news , VPN usage skyrockets in austrailia 

 

[IKnight]

That's pretty stupid in my opinion. They should go after the websites, not block users from freely accessing the internet. If they are allowed to block pirate sites from the public, this could open up a gate way for more and more sites to be blocked. 

[vorticalbox]

1 minute ago, ImadKnight said:

That's pretty stupid in my opinion. They should go after the websites, not block users from freely accessing the internet. If they are allowed to block pirate sites from the public, this could open up a gate way for more and more sites to be blocked. 

i agree, taking out the supply is far more effective. However this isn't a game they can ever win.

 

block a website, VPN or change the url/ip of website

 

take the website down, someone will open another

 

and the third option is they all move to tor.

[IKnight]

3 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

i agree, taking out the supply is far more effective. However this isn't a game they can ever win.

 

block a website, VPN or change the url/ip of website

 

take the website down, someone will open another

 

and the third option is they all move to tor.

Of course, pirates will always prevail, and this will only give them more publicity. 

(One great example being the tor Silk Road. It may have been shut down, and Ulbricht may have gone to prison, but countless more markets almost immediately popped up to fill the void). 

[AnonymousGuy]

Has any anti-piracy effort ever been successful?

[sazrocks]

How are they planning to do this effectively? Also VPNs are a thing.

1 hour ago, Allycat said:

And anti-copyright theft group Creative Content Australia went further and warned individual movie pirates would be next to face courts, with plans to sue any Australian who “continues to download pirated content”.

I'm calling bull on this. No way they would spend at least tens of thousands of dollars going after an individual who is costing them at most several hundred dollars by not paying.

[Bananasplit_00]

well... isnt this just blatant cencur of the internet? nice. what you think are developed countries are now on the bandwagon. who knows where it will stop

[suicidalfranco]

the golden days for VPN providers

[sazrocks]

7 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

well... isnt this just blatant cencur of the internet? nice. what you think are developed countries are now on the bandwagon. who knows where it will stop

Not really, what the sites are doing is illegal, and they can legally be blocked. Its just stupid to think that this will work to keep people from pirating.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, sazrocks said:

Not really, what the sites are doing is illegal, and they can legally be blocked. Its just stupid to think that this will work to keep people from pirating.

yah well once everyone stats to use VPNs they will go block all of those and so on. 

[sazrocks]

14 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

yah well once everyone stats to use VPNs they will go block all of those and so on. 

To that I say good luck

[Serin]

Mostly streaming sites anyway.
Nothing of value lost. 

[captain_to_fire]

16 hours ago, ImadKnight said:

That's pretty stupid in my opinion. They should go after the websites, not block users from freely accessing the internet. If they are allowed to block pirate sites from the public, this could open up a gate way for more and more sites to be blocked. 

I agree. Kinda like how law enforcement agencies went after Pirate Bay

 

16 hours ago, Allycat said:

PIRATES, you have been warned.

I think few of the reasons why people pirate content are:

1. Geographical restrictions
2. Price

[RagnarokDel]

That's gonna be effective a whole 3 seconds.

[Donut417]

When you cut off one head another will take its place. Hail Hydra! 

[Maticks]

As an Australian I have tried to do the right thing. Had foxtel and used the app on my TV for on  demand content but they only have 20% of it and missed episodes in  the current season.

Also 480p and 720p is it for streaming, apparently we only want to watch game of thrones as a blocky mess. 

 

Then I went Netflix content keeps disappearing new stuff gets added but when it's before the 90s and not content owned by foxtel. Better streaming quality just not that much content. 

 

The laws here around content rights is the issue. Till that is fixed you will need 6 different streaming subscriptions. I spent most my time trying to work out which streaming program I needed to search for what show. Who has the content rights for it.

 

I think people only pirate not because they don't want to pay for it. They just can't work out who has the rights to host it here. 

Let's face it go to any torrent sites all the shows appear in one search. 

I am sure if all content was hosted by one content provider we would buy a subscription. I want decent quality streaming and content.

 

Foxtel now I was very excited about since they were going to have 10,000+ on demand content. I launched national geographic and looked at all the content a total of 9 series.. Apparently that's all the content for the last 5 years.. They have the rights to the content yet fail to host the content they are the markers of their own problem. But yeah shut down torrent sites for providing a better service then they could ever. 

[Dabombinable]

If its another DNS level block....PMSL

[Beskamir]

The war on piracy is basically about as stupid and effective as the war on drugs. Completely ignoring the root of the issue while trying to deal with all the symptoms.

[comicsansms]

The data shows that Australian's are willing to pay for content if it is reasonably priced, but the problem is, Netflix and the other streaming platforms don't have a full library, you have to rent all of them to get all of the content, and then you are probably still missing out on stuff you want.

Infact, Netflix was the 2nd most used paid-content media company in Australia in 2015, when Netflix did not exist in Australia in 2015, that shows how sad the state of the content delivery services are in Australia right there.

 

Also, I know that video is region locked, and one the points in that video is that region locking should be stopped, but other than that, it is a good video

[MajorFoley]

9 hours ago, ImadKnight said:

That's pretty stupid in my opinion. They should go after the websites, not block users from freely accessing the internet. If they are allowed to block pirate sites from the public, this could open up a gate way for more and more sites to be blocked. 

They want to stop pirates? Stop charging us Australians an arm and a leg for everything. Easy way to stop pirates but they refuse to so yeah. We also can't rely on streaming sites like netflix all the time because alot of us want to watch in HD and most of Australia's internet is abysmal, right now im getting 6 down and i share with 4 other heavy internet users.

 

They can try to ban VPN's but i doubt they will anytime soon as Businesses that span internationally use them.

[vorticalbox]

8 hours ago, sazrocks said:

How are they planning to do this effectively? Also VPNs are a thing.

I'm calling bull on this. No way they would spend at least tens of thousands of dollars going after an individual who is costing them at most several hundred dollars by not paying.

how would that even work when you can use an encrypted connection with p2p meaning they can see who you're downloading from and how much but not what.

 

so long near where I lived last year got a fine for illegally downloading content. 

[apm]

10 hours ago, ImadKnight said:

That's pretty stupid in my opinion. They should go after the websites, not block users from freely accessing the internet. If they are allowed to block pirate sites from the public, this could open up a gate way for more and more sites to be blocked. 

stop making sense.

its just way easier to block sites and they think its doing something.

[Orangeator]

Like someone said above me... This is like the war on drugs. They are treating the symptoms, not the cause.

[JAKEBAB]

Wow, not only did we get a bs price hike on netflix that has far less content than pretty much anywhere else, we now are going to block any other options

 

Australia - the land of no rights!