{"id":2949,"date":"2016-04-19T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T01:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/music-industry-seeks-to-have-kickasstorrents-blocked-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T01:22:25","slug":"music-industry-seeks-to-have-kickasstorrents-blocked-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/music-industry-seeks-to-have-kickasstorrents-blocked-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Music industry seeks to have KickassTorrents blocked in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A82a02b0918f4869a3eea240bdfdcacb\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE5LzA5L2E4MmEwMmIwOTE4LmFhNGIyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/0a55879b\/cbc\/a82a02b0918f4869a3eea240bdfdcacb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Music+industry+seeks+to+have+KickassTorrents+blocked+in+Australia&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fsony-universal-kickasstorrents-blocked%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fsony-universal-kickasstorrents-blocked%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Australian government&#8217;s controversial site blocking bill is about to get another workout.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, some of the country&#8217;s largest record companies, including Universal Music Australia, Warner Music Australia and SonyMusic Entertainment Australia, announced they would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comcourts.gov.au\/file\/Federal\/P\/NSD545\/2016\/actions\">seeking to have<\/a> the site KickassTorrents and proxy sites blocked in Australia.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/18\/steve-wozniak-uber\/\">Steve Wozniak is not sure he trusts Uber to do the right thing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The labels are able to take the legal action thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/06\/22\/australia-site-blocking-bill\/\">an amendment to the Copyright Act<\/a> passed in 2015. Rights holders can now apply to the Federal Court to force Internet service providers to block foreign websites that have the &#8220;primary purpose&#8221; of facilitating copyright infringement. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/18\/sony-universal-kickasstorrents-blocked\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/sony-music-entertainment-australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sony Music Entertainment Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/warner-music-australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Warner Music Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/universal-music-australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Universal Music Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/kickasstorrents\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Kickasstorrents<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/site-blocking\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Site Blocking<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/skv0An_khJE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government&#8217;s controversial site blocking bill is about to get another workout. On Monday, some of the country&#8217;s largest record companies, including Universal Music Australia, Warner Music Australia and SonyMusic Entertainment Australia, announced they would be seeking to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/music-industry-seeks-to-have-kickasstorrents-blocked-in-australia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2206,2207,2203,2205,2204],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-kickasstorrents","tag-site-blocking","tag-sony-music-entertainment-australia","tag-universal-music-australia","tag-warner-music-australia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}