Federal Court grants new “copycat” site-blocking order

By Ahmad Hathout The Federal Court said Wednesday that a novel website-blocking order it granted last month that targets “copycat” content pirate websites that pop up to replace similar ones is a “modest and necessary extension of the relief commonly granted in proceedings of this kind.” Whereas the court has previously made orders that defined a particular domain to be blocked – with additional websites requiring justification – the new order granted on December 16 against “Soap2Day” will allow the plaintiffs, through a simplified motion to the court, to expand the list of website domains for internet service providers to...