Australian ISPs required to block pirate sites

Incredibly disappointing.

This is heading to be a DCMA for entire websites. ("The judge also appears to support the application of rolling injunctions to make it easier to chase offending sites").

Yet, the most effective thing to decrease piracy in Australia was the national launch of Netflix.

The decrease of portfolio was swiftly reflected by a rise in piracy.

Providers like Netflix, Stan and Quickflix do a hell of a better job at reducing copyright infringement.

Spotify and Pandora effectively killed music piracy.

Laws that require the ISP to spy more and more on the people that pay them to transfer bits are doing nothing for our shoddy infrastructure, and seem to be nothing more than badly directed efforts at a problemspace that the industries affected seem to want to ignore exists: Legal means are often times a multitude of difficulty harder than illegal means.