The company, which is jointly owned by Telstra and News Corp, made the claim in a submission to the federal government's online copyright infringement discussion paper, published on Monday.

Foxtel said in December last year it would launch its broadband service in late 2014 as a wholesale customer of Telstra. It has since updated its website to say the service will launch in early 2015.

While Foxtel did not name what steps it would take to stop its future broadband subscribers from pirating, it indicated in its submission that blocking websites hosting pirate material and introducing a "graduated response" scheme would be appropriate for other providers in Australia.

A graduated response scheme varies from country to country, but typically results in a customer being warned a number of times about alleged copyright infringement they have committed before a sanction is imposed on them, such as the slowing of their internet connection.

In some countries a subscriber's internet service can be terminated, but Foxtel said it did not advocate this in Australia.

"Graduated response programs are well established in many overseas jurisdictions, as is legislation providing courts with a specific power to order [internet service providers] to block access to sites which infringe copyright," Foxtel said.

"These measures are effective and must be urgently introduced in Australia. Experience from overseas jurisdictions – particularly the US, United Kingdom and Ireland – shows that both industry and regulatory solutions can be very effective."

Foxtel said without measures being taken against repeat offenders, potential reforms to stop piracy are "unlikely to succeed in changing behaviour" when it came to downloading unauthorised content.

The publication of Foxtel's submission comes as the Abbott government looks at ways to crack down on online copyright infringement.

One proposal outlined in its discussion paper would compel internet providers to stop subscribers who illicitly download. Another would require them to block overseas websites that host copyright infringing content.

The content industry has welcomed the paper's ideas, while some internet providers such as iiNet have rejected them, saying the issue of piracy is primarily a pricing and availability issue.

Telstra recently said it supported the crackdown.

But consumer group Choice has said the proposal amounts to the introduction of an industry-run internet filter and could result in the blocking of legitimate sites.

Foxtel said it supports the voluntary US Copyright Alert System, which talks of significantly slowing down subscribers' internet speeds for a certain amount of time.

Asked by Fairfax Media on Monday what action Foxtel would take against customers who pirate on its future broadband service, a company spokesman said measures would "be subject to negotiation within the industry".

"We would point to the US system which has a series of educative notices sent to infringing customers followed up by some mitigation measures for persistent breaches."

In the US, up to six notices are sent to customers. Providers then have a variety of actions they can take if users continue to pirate, which include slowing speeds or requiring the customer to visit an "educative" website before they can access the web.