Foxtel, Village renew push for search engines to hide pirate sites – Argue for expansion of website blocking scheme

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. Currently, the scheme only covers telcos.

Roadshow and Foxtel have been the most high-profile users of the site-blocking scheme. The pair have obtained Federal Court injunctions forcing major ISPs, including Telstra, Optus, TPG (including iiNet and Internode) and Vocus to block broadband subscribers’ access to a number of sites linked to copyright infringement.

The government last month launched a public consultation on the site-blocking mechanism that was introduced by the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015.

Read the full article at ComputerWorld, 22 March 2018.