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Is my site blocked in Austria?
Austrian providers block sites after a copyright holder's formal warning or a court ruling, under EU sanctions, or on orders from the Financial Market Authority, and the regulator RTR lists the active blocks by provider. Unrelated sites were caught at the end of August 2022, when a piracy block also hit Cloudflare IP addresses (numeric server addresses that many sites share). In August 2023 the regulator said most blocks were made in DNS (the internet's address book) and showed a notice page; it ruled that a DNS block is normally enough, so adding IP blocks is not allowed.
Sources: RTR, legal bases for blocks, November 2026 · RTR, 10 August 2023 · TorrentFreak, 11 August 2023 · RTR, list of active blocks, November 2026
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Who can have a site blocked in Austria?
Austria's Copyright Act lets a rights holder, after a formal warning, demand that a provider cut off access to a site that infringes copyright systematically, not just now and then. Normally a court decides such a demand. When a provider blocks after a warning without a court ruling, the regulator checks the block against the EU net-neutrality rules. In March 2014 the EU Court of Justice ruled, in the UPC Telekabel case from Austria, that a court may order a provider to block an infringing site without saying how. The provider must be able to avoid penalties by showing it took all reasonable steps to make the site hard to reach without needlessly blocking lawful content.
Sources: RTR, legal bases for blocks, November 2026 · Court of Justice of the EU, C-314/12, 27 March 2014
EU sanctions on Russian state media bind Austrian providers without any national order. The communications authority KommAustria lists the services concerned, and providers have blocked rt.com and sputniknews.com since 2022. Under the EU crypto-assets rules (MiCA), the Financial Market Authority (FMA) can oblige providers to restrict access to a site. Consumer-protection and product-safety rules also allow blocks as a last resort, for widespread cross-border breaches of consumer law and for products that pose a serious risk.
Sources: RTR, legal bases for blocks, November 2026 · RTR, list of active blocks, November 2026
The RTR list names providers by company: A1 Telekom Austria, T-Mobile Austria (the company behind Magenta), Hutchison Drei Austria (Drei) and others such as kabelplus, LIWEST and Salzburg AG.
Sources: RTR, list of active blocks, November 2026 · Magenta, imprint, November 2026 · Drei, imprint, November 2026
Do Austrian providers block by IP address?
At the end of August 2022, new blocking instructions in anti-piracy cases listed IP addresses as well as domain names. Some of these addresses belonged to Cloudflare, a CDN (a network that serves many websites from shared servers), so blocking them made many unrelated sites unreachable in Austria. Magenta said at the time that providers could no longer have a block checked by the regulator in advance.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 29 August 2022 · TorrentFreak, 11 August 2023
On 7 August 2023 the Telekom-Control-Kommission (TKK), the regulatory authority, found that the IP blocks of August 2022 broke the EU net-neutrality rules, under which providers may not block content unless, for example, a law requires it. One IP address can serve countless websites, it said, so the risk to unrelated sites is particularly high. Blocking a domain name in DNS is normally enough, it said, so adding IP blocks is not necessary and therefore not allowed. Our note on collateral blocking in Europe compares this case with Spain and Italy.
Sources: RTR, 10 August 2023 · TKK, decision R 25/22, 7 August 2023 · RTR, net neutrality, November 2026
What is new for crypto and gambling sites?
Since April 2026 the RTR list has also included blocks under MiCA. Entries dated 7 April 2026 show standardingold.com blocked at A1, Magenta, LIWEST and Salzburg AG; in October 2025 the FMA had ordered Standard in Gold LTD to stop offering its token SOLID to the public. Entries dated 6 July 2026 show cifrenitpro.com and cifrenit.at blocked at five providers; in January 2026 the FMA had said it filed a criminal complaint about Cifrenit Pro, which has no FMA licence for crypto-asset services.
Sources: RTR, list of active blocks, November 2026 · FMA, 13 November 2025 · FMA, 5 January 2026
A government bill to reform the Gambling Act would add blocks of illegal gambling sites from the start date in the bill (1 January 2027 in the version sent to parliament). The anti-fraud office (Amt für Betrugsbekämpfung) would first order hosting companies, caching services (which keep copies of sites to deliver them faster) and search engines to stop helping people reach the site. If that fails, it could ask the TKK to order internet providers to block the site, for example by sending visitors to an information page. Providers with fewer than 2,000 end users would be exempt, and the TKK would keep a list of blocked sites. The bill's explanatory notes say IP blocking must not be ordered, to avoid overblocking (hitting unrelated sites).
Sources: Austrian Parliament, 12 August 2026 · Austrian Parliament, bill text, 5 August 2026 · Austrian Parliament, explanatory notes, 5 August 2026
The bill reached parliament (the National Council) on 5 August 2026 and was assigned to its Finance Committee on 14 September 2026. As of 11 November 2026, the committee has not yet started discussing it.
Source: Austrian Parliament, bill 594 d.B., November 2026
How can I check whether my site is blocked in Austria?
Search the RTR list of active blocks for your domain. Each row shows the decision date, case number, provider, domain and legal basis. An asterisk, as in *.rt.com, covers every domain ending in .rt.com. You can download the whole table as a CSV file that opens in any spreadsheet. RTR says the list may be incomplete while proceedings are running. Rows are per provider, so a domain can be listed for some providers and not others: the megakino.co entries from June 2024 are for A1, Magenta and Drei.
Source: RTR, list of active blocks, November 2026
If a visitor reports a blocking notice, ask which provider they use, such as A1, Magenta or Drei, and check that provider's rows in the RTR list. OONI Explorer has volunteers' censorship tests from Austrian connections, but only for sites someone chose to test.
Source: OONI, measurements from Austria, November 2026
We do not measure Austria yet; demand decides the order in which we add countries. A check there would have to look up your domain through A1, Magenta and Drei connections separately. Today linkspect is open in early access in Germany, Poland and Norway.
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.