The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules (abc.net.au)

New submitter AnonymousCube writes: The Federal Court has made a ruling that will result in internet access for Australians being censored. Five websites are to be blocked after being deemed to be copyright infringing, most notable of which is The Pirate Bay. Internet service providers are given the choice of how they will implement blocking, but the result will be that when a user visits a blocked site they will be redirected to a warning page telling them the site cannot be accessed. Other sites being blocked are the BitTorrent websites Torrentz, TorrentHound, and IsoHunt, and the streaming service SolarMovie.

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Internet Censorship Mark II

[aberglas]

There was a huge fight about three years ago when the then Labor government's Senator Conroy tried to ram through internet censorship in Australia. The uproar was sufficient that the now marginal conservative government will not touch it. But now there is another attack from the courts, which is more difficult to deal with.

(Conway, incidentally, has taken up a lucrative job lobbying for gambling in Australia.)

Re:Internet Censorship Mark II

[stealth_finger]

The UK has already implemented this; many tracker sites are now blocked at ISP level.

And yet even my wife can google pirate bay proxy, find a working one and she's away getting all her shit shows.