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

Posted by BeauHD on from the copyright-infringing dept.

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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  1. Umm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is going to work how, exactly?

    1. Re:Umm.... by dintech · · Score: 5, Informative

      It won't work. This happened in the UK. The ISPs were forced to blocked thepiratebay.se and any other variants that court orders stipulate, but there are some many proxies being created all the time that it's a pointless endeavour. Effectively, there's no meaningful block as it's impossible to maintain.

  2. Internet Censorship Mark II by aberglas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.)

    1. Re:Internet Censorship Mark II by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

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

    2. Re:Internet Censorship Mark II by vlad30 · · Score: 2

      Lets Play Whack-A-Mole or is it like a Medusa snake

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    3. Re:Internet Censorship Mark II by stealth_finger · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  3. The foxtel muppet recons people don't use vpns by Harlequin80 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Methodology is being left to the ISPs. Which means it will most likely be a DNS block. People just need to point their routers at the google DNS and it is circumvented.

    As for the foxtel muppet he's claiming aussies don't use VPNs. Uh huh, right. That's why we have had legislation put through explicitly saying defeating geoblocking with VPNs is ok. Cause no one in Australia uses a vpn... Nope no one.

    1. Re:The foxtel muppet recons people don't use vpns by gravewax · · Score: 2

      Interestingly after hearing the news I asked my work colleagues in the room how many of them would be affected by this. Answer, big fat zero as we all use VPNs, VPN use has exploded since they brought in the metadata laws. Some of them don't even download torrents they just object to being monitored.

    2. Re:The foxtel muppet recons people don't use vpns by admin7087 · · Score: 2

      VPNs will probably be blocked for non-corporate customers soon, too. Don't use technical solutions for social problems. Vote your politicians out of their offices instead.

  4. The "Pirates" need to start running for office. by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 2

    The "Pirates" need to start running for office. They need to start re-working governments to stop this madness because if they don't, we will all live in the Cold War East Germany.

  5. Next up by GeekWithAKnife · · Score: 2


    The sun will be blocked if viewed without paying for copyright.

    Please direct us to where we can pay the toll sir.

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  6. Re:How do they block by tepples · · Score: 2

    ISPs could start by intercepting outbound traffic on port 53.

    You might suggest DNSSEC. But as I understand it, DNSSEC failed for two reasons: the root key is only 1024-bit RSA, which is dangerously close to breakable, and domain registrars who bundle DNS service with a registration tried to upcharge their registrants for signing a zone.