Village Roadshow will lead an action in the Australian Federal Court backed by Hollywood studios to have internet service providers block a piracy website which facilitates the free streaming of movies and television shows such as Star Wars and The Walking Dead.

The action is the first taken to the Federal Court under the Copyright Amendment (online infringement) Act passed by the parliament which was put forward by the then Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull in June last year.

The site Village Roadshow and its backers are seeking to block is SolarMovie. If successful the court case would not see Australians using the site prosecuted - it would simply stop working for users based here unless they were using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service.

The site has been blocked by court order in the United Kingdom and on Tuesday was the first site to be blocked through court action by Singapore ISPs since the its government's own copyright legislation changes in December 2014.