Goodbye Pirate Bay: It's D-Day for illegal downloading sites in Australia

Say goodbye to Pirate Bay, Australia. (At least, until you figure out how to use a VPN.)

In a landmark case in the Federal Court in Sydney Thursday, Justice Nicholas ordered internet providers "take reasonable steps" to block websites including Solar Movie, Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound and IsoHunt.  

Under a site blocking law passed in 2015, Foxtel and Roadshow applied to the court in February for an injunction to force internet service providers (ISPs) such as Telstra and Optus to block sites that they claimed had the "primary purpose" of supporting copyright infringement.  Read more...