Torrent downloaders in Austria will soon lose access to the most popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay.

An Austrian court has ordered that access to TBP from Internet service provider (ISP) A1 Telecom will be blocked, reports stated.

According to The Register, this is not the first time the court ordered such ruling. In the previous month, there was also the same order of a blocked access to streaming websites such as knox.to and movie4k.to.

This time, the court stated that ISPs will need to pay for future blockades.

The latest order issued before the weekend followed after a complaint given by copyright holders International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Austria.

Not only will ISPs block access to thepiratebay.se, but also to 1337x.to, h33t.to, and isohunt.to.

A1 Telecom will be the one to decide how to block the access, either Internet Protocol (IP) address blocking, domain name system (DNS) locking or both measures, but IFPI will also offer its help to make sure blocking access will be implemented well.

Franz Medwenitsch, managing director of IFPI Austria, was happy about the court ruling, stating that it is a "very gratifying decision" that will contribute to the development of online music industry.

Medwenitsch also called out to other ISPs to be compliant and work together in the implementation of such ruling.

The move to shut down TPB may only be another game of cat and mouse. It was reported that the Swedish government had won a case in May to seize TPB domains, but shortly after, the site returned with a different domain.

Nevertheless, the recent success on the blockades should prompt more requests for ISPs to block other sites in the coming months.

Courts from different parts of the world have also ordered ISPs to block access to torrent sites and the list seems be growing.