Australia has passed its new anti-piracy law through the Senate earlier this week which is reportedly designed to target torrent-hosting sites such as Pirate Bay and Kick Ass Torrents.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, companies which are content rights holders may start submitting cases to the court to request injunctions for websites they believe have the primary purpose of hosting or facilitating infringement of any copyrights belonging to film, TV and movies.

Government frontbencher Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said that Australians should be reminded of the possible consequences when they download or stream anything for free.

“Australians love creative content. They need to be reminded that if they take too much without giving back, they will jeopardise the content that they love,” she said.

Despite being uploaded by its users, if the website is proven to be hosting free content without payment to and due knowledge of the original company or owner, the court will issue an order to Australian internet providers such as Telstra, iiNet and TPG to block the site.

However, some senators are concerned that broad wording of the new laws may produce “collateral damage” as they may also prevent access to legitimate sharing sites such as Dropbox and MEGA, the report added.

Meanwhile, Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij was released from prison in Sweden last June 1 after serving two-thirds of his 10-month term for charges of copyright infringement, The Guardian reported.

He reportedly plans to appeal the seizure of the website’s two popular domains ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se by Stockholm District Court last month. The court got hold of the domains when they found out that Neij owns them.

Upon finding out about the ruling, moderators and administrators of the site set up six alternative domains to be rotated for the meantime. The team also created a status page when some internet users claimed that the site was down across all domains.

Torrent Freak reported that the six new domains are accessible by omitting the ‘www’ prefix when typing their URLs.