Record turnaround for Foxtel anti-piracy injunction
Foxtel has been successful in its Federal Court application to have Australian ISPs block 28 domains linked to 15 online services.
Foxtel has been successful in its Federal Court application to have Australian ISPs block 28 domains linked to 15 online services.
Foxtel has returned to Federal Court for its third application for an injunction to stop Australians accessing a range of sites it says facilitate infringement of its copyright, including by providing unauthorised access to its prison drama Wentworth.
It has not been smooth sailing for Hong Kong-headquartered Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) in its attempt to have Australian ISPs block access to online services linked to a number of set-top boxes.
Roadshow Films has been successful in its Federal Court application to have Telstra, Optus, Vocus and TPG block their subscribers from accessing a streaming service associated with an Android app.
Foxtel is seeking to block another 15 websites it claims are linked to piracy, with the pay TV company today telling a Federal Court hearing that it was eager to finds ways to reduce the costs of applications for site-blocking injunctions.
A Hong Kong-based broadcaster is seeking to have an Australian court hand down orders forcing major Internet service providers to stop their customers from accessing the proprietary app marketplaces used by a range of set-top boxes.
Foxtel and Village Roadshow are using a public consultation on the operation of Australia’s website-blocking laws to urge that the anti-piracy scheme be expanded.
The government is conducting a review of Australia’s anti-piracy website blocking regime 18 months after it came into effect.
A Federal Court judge has warned copyright holders that they shouldn’t assume that he will automatically grant site-blocking injunctions if they fail to produce convincing evidence in their attempt to stifle illicit set-top-box streaming services.
Internet service providers could potentially have to block IP addresses linked to illicit streaming services, the Federal Court heard today, unless a website block requested by Village Roadshow is implemented swiftly.
Hong Kong broadcaster Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) has launched Federal Court action in Australia seeking to force ISPs to block their customers from using Internet-connected set-top boxes to stream TVB’s broadcasts.
InternetNZ has joined Vocus is its criticism of legal action by Sky TV aimed at forcing New Zealand’s largest ISPs to block access to web sites hosting pirated content
Village Roadshow and a group of movie studios are pushing for a Federal Court injunction to compel Internet service providers to block more online services that the company claims are linked to online piracy.
In late September, news broke of Pirate Bay hijacking users’ CPU resources to mine cryptocurrencies, triggering a huge backlash from users.
The Federal Court this morning ordered Australia’s biggest Internet service providers (ISPs) to block 58 individual pirate sites and more than 200 different domains and IP addresses.