Nicholas J has granted another round of injunctions ordering ISPs to block access to offshore copyright infringing sites.
Having established the ground rules in the earlier applications (here and here), the ISPs didn’t turn up; essentially just filing submitting appearances and agreeing to be bound by the orders.
According to this News report, once these orders are implemented a total of “65 piracy sites and 340 domains” will be blocked in Australia. That is claimed to be “95 per cent of the criminal trade blocked”.
Apparently, the film companies:
plan, later this year, to sue any individual that continues to download pirated content.
Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Limited [2017] FCA 965