Australia-based filmmaking and television companies Roadshow Films and Foxtel have taken their first legal step to do away with The Pirate Bay and other popular torrent sites.

The former is looking to render The Pirate Bay, which was down last week, as well as isoHunt, TorrentHound and Torrentz, inaccessible in Australia. The latter is all for purging SolarMovie.

Much to the horror of torrent fans in Australia, the two giants came before the Federal court asking for The Pirate Bay and the rest of the said torrent tanks to be blocked in the country by ISPs altogether.

However, abolishing these sites completely is a wild task to execute. With truckloads of mirrors and proxies of these sites, it's extremely difficult to entirely curb the illegal downloading from these torrent giants.

More than that, another must-do in the blocking process for The Pirate Bay and the other torrent sources involves both Foxtel and Roadshow Films contacting the copyright holders to acquire a court order.

These license-holding bodies in question are needed to show proof that the sites targeted indeed exist for the sole purpose of illegal distribution of otherwise licensed content.

"[For some of the sites] there's no obvious or indeed unobvious mechanism for getting in touch with the operators of the sites," veteran piracy case lawyer Richard Lancaster told ZDnet.

"But we have sent notification letters out to 43 of the 61 domain names that have been identified in the pleadings," the attorney went on to explain.

Foxtel and Roadshow films wish to directly block URLs and IP addresses of the torrent sites while ISPs like TPG seek to hamper the DNS systems instead because the companies' preferred blocking mechanism "might be an issue."

However, Foxtel's counsel hopes that the company and ISPs will find middle ground. "We are concerned and ISPs are concerned that the orders in this case provide a template for the future," Foxtel's counsel said.

"We expect that will be done by careful consideration in the proceedings and by an eye for efficiency in future proceedings," he added.