Australia’s major telcos have been ordered to block another batch of websites linked to piracy of TV shows and movies.

The Federal Court last week ruled that the websites operated with a “blatant disregard for the rights of copyright owners”, and ordered Telstra, Optus, Vocus and TPG to take “reasonable steps”, within 15 days, to stop their customers accessing them.

Industry body Creative Content Australia’s executive director, Lori Flekser, said the creative industries were being ruined by pirating.

“Pirate sites firstly earn a lot of money from other people's content — that's income and revenue that local and global practitioners who have worked incredibly hard on those productions don't get to see, she said.

“Piracy is not a victimless crime: the victims are the creative industries who lose jobs, who lose revenue and who lose potential jobs in the films that simply aren't made because the risks of recouping the revenue are too high.”

The ruling came after two cases, one brought by eight film distributors led by Roadshow Films, and a separate case by Foxtel.

The court ruled that carriage service providers must take reasonable steps to prevent access sites that infringe or facilitate the infringement of copyright.

The four big CSPs will now block domain names for pirate streaming sites including Yes Movies, Vumoo, Los Movies, Cartoon HD, Putlocker, Watch Series 1, Watch Series 2, Project - Free TV, ProjectFreeTV, Watch Episodes, Watch Episode Series, Watch TV Series, The Dare TV, Putlocker9.is, Putlocker9.com, as well as Torrent sites: 1337x and Torlock.

The companies must also establish and maintain a website that informs users if the site they are attempting to access infringes or facilitates the infringement of copyright.

The latest site-blocking orders mean more than 65 sites and more than 340 domains have been blocked in Australia.