Pirate Bay acquires anti-piracy domain

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 16th October 2007
Comments (31) Stumble
The Pirate Bay has captured the one of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's domains, IFPI.com.

The Pirate Bay has captured the one of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's domains, IFPI.com.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s home on the Internet, IFPI.com, has mysteriously fallen into the hands of The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest torrent tracker.

Many may not have heard of the IFPI before, but you’re bound to have heard of the RIAA and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI); the IFPI is the parent organisation for these two anti-piracy companies.

In a rather comical move, The Pirate Bay has decided to use the domain to host the newly-founded International Federation of Pirate Interests.

TorrentFreak got in touch with Brokep, one of The Pirate Bay’s administrators, in order to get an explanation of what this new organisation is all about. “[It’s] the new international federation we’re starting in order to get the word of piracy spread,” he said.

The IFPI is reportedly unhappy with the move, which doesn’t come as much of a surprise.

This follows on from last week where a leaked email conversation between the IFPI and one of its lawyers revealed that the anti-piracy organisation was requesting confidential information from the Swedish police as part of an on-going police investigation. I guess you could say that has come back to bite the IFPI in the backside...

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Quote DarkLord7854 16th October 2007, 14:37
I'm sorry, this had me cracking up... great start to a cold bleary morning
Quote b1g-d0g 16th October 2007, 14:46
Hahah Owned!!
Quote Redbeaver 16th October 2007, 14:53
ROFL!!

^^ as above... P4WND!!
Quote Delphium 16th October 2007, 16:55
Quote:
Originally Posted by b1g-d0g
Hahah Owned!!
HARD!!! :D

Hrhrhrhr
Quote quack 16th October 2007, 17:16
The Pirate Bay are awesome.
Quote Stuey 16th October 2007, 18:20
cool, but how?

I think that the domain was just a redirect to ifpi.org that was given up or independently owned by a 3rd party.
Quote Khensu 16th October 2007, 18:24
Well...what can anyone say except for "pwned"... !
Quote mikeuk2004 16th October 2007, 18:38
lol, its a way to get their attention I guess :)
Quote Breach 16th October 2007, 19:09
That is ******* awsome lol.
Quote DXR_13KE 16th October 2007, 19:27
pwnd LOL :D

edit: i sure hope this does not come back and bite TPB in the ass...
Quote HourBeforeDawn 16th October 2007, 19:38
omg that is awesome great for them, ^_^
Quote completemadness 16th October 2007, 20:00
Quote:
Originally Posted by DXR_13KE
edit: i sure hope this does not come back and bite TPB in the ass...
There's not much anyone can do

if they don't renew the domain, they loose the rights to it

OK they can step up their attacks against TPB, but they still wont get the domain back, and the current attacks have failed anyway
Quote Hells_Bliss 16th October 2007, 20:22
Thats what you get for not renewing your domain :p

good for TPB i say.
Quote Javerh 16th October 2007, 20:44
Is there a way of joining the International Federation of Pirate interests?
Quote Glider 16th October 2007, 20:49
This redifines Owned ;)
Quote quack 16th October 2007, 21:17
Quote:
Originally Posted by completemadness
There's not much anyone can do

if they don't renew the domain, they loose the rights to it

OK they can step up their attacks against TPB, but they still wont get the domain back, and the current attacks have failed anyway
Actually the IFPI just needs to go through a Domain Name Dispute Resolution and they're bound to get it back again. Just takes time to go through the whole process.
Quote culley 16th October 2007, 21:24
Quote:
Originally Posted by quack
Actually the IFPI just needs to go through a Domain Name Dispute Resolution and they're bound to get it back again. Just takes time to go through the whole process.

Yeah, they will have to go through major legal battles with this and they will probably lose, i doubt Sweden laws are different regarding domain name disuptes.

Though knowing sweden they could be!
Quote Cupboard 16th October 2007, 22:43
Sometimes I wish I lived in Sweden, some of their laws are soo cool!
Quote Lord_A 16th October 2007, 23:15
AWESOME!

All hail The Pirate Bay!
Quote Henk 16th October 2007, 23:25
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cupboard
Sometimes I wish I lived in Sweden, some of their laws are soo cool!

Such as?
Quote Morphine-Kitty 17th October 2007, 02:37
Maybe they shanghaied the servers.
Quote outlawaol 17th October 2007, 05:52
^^ lol :D

There wouldnt be so many pirates if they wouldnt charge a arm and a leg for their crap. It'll get to the point that they will see that people arnt willing to pay as much as they did for stuff then when it first started.

Hacked xbox's, hacked games/OS/apps. It'll all come around eventually....

*yo ho ho and bottle of rum!*
Quote impar 17th October 2007, 09:37
Greetings!

I fail to see why this is even news.
I can get a www.bit-tech.com. Would that be news?

IFPI just needs to challenge the name.
Quote Hells_Bliss 17th October 2007, 13:58
Quote:
Originally Posted by Henk
Such as?

4 weeks mandatory vacation
Quote DXR_13KE 17th October 2007, 15:04
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hells_Bliss
4 weeks mandatory vacation

as in most or some europe countries....
Quote quack 17th October 2007, 15:08
Quote:
Originally Posted by impar
I fail to see why this is even news.
Because a major anti-piracy organisation forgot to renew the registration of one of their domains and one of the most prominent pro-piracy organisations snapped it up. The domain redirected to ifpi.org - the official IFPI homepage. So anyone trying to get to the IFPI website using the .com extension would've gone to the right place, but now they go to a Pirate Bay owned site.
Quote:
Originally Posted by impar
I can get a www.bit-tech.com. Would that be news?
bit-tech.com is already registered (not by bit-tech.net but by a drill-bit manufacturing company), and has been since 1996. ;) If you did however snag it, no it probably wouldn't be news, bit-tech.net is nowhere near as well known as the IFPI or The Pirate Bay, and is nothing to do with bit-tech.net at all.
Quote:
Originally Posted by impar
IFPI just needs to challenge the name.
Correct. IFPI will almost certainly get the domain name back, the procedure will just take a few weeks to go through arbitration.
Quote Kipman725 17th October 2007, 18:13
I don't think the IFPI had it in the first place their site is .org so no they wouldn't be able to "get it back". The whole multiple domains for the same thing is quite greedy and people should use an appropriate domain for what they are doing.
Quote impar 19th October 2007, 10:37
Greetings!
Quote:
Originally Posted by quack
bit-tech.com is already registered (not by bit-tech.net but by a drill-bit manufacturing company), and has been since 1996. ;)
Ok. :)
BTW, pretty amazed by how many other "bit-techs" and similar names are on the WWW.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kipman725
I don't think the IFPI had it in the first place their site is .org so no they wouldn't be able to "get it back".
They had it:
The UK-based organization acts as the worldwide arm for the music recording industry, but as widely reported, it apparently forgot to renew its .com top-level domain in time before it got snatched up by one of its top targets, The Pirate Bay.

TPB just got involved in another IP violation.
Quote Constructacon 19th October 2007, 20:13
They shouldn't be able to complain TBH. Isn't that what the whole point of having different domain extensions is for?

.org for Not For Profit organisations
.com for comercial companies
.gov for government sites

and the (proposed)
.xxx for exxxtra curricular studies.

A company can't be simmulaneously be an NFP organisation and a commercial entity. (On a related note I scoff at the RIAA trying to pass themselves off as NFP.)
Quote Smilodon 20th October 2007, 00:46
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hells_Bliss
4 weeks mandatory vacation

hah! Norway has 5 ;)
Quote completemadness 21st October 2007, 18:20
Quote:
Originally Posted by Constructacon
They shouldn't be able to complain TBH. Isn't that what the whole point of having different domain extensions is for?

.org for Not For Profit organisations
.com for comercial companies
.gov for government sites

and the (proposed)
.xxx for exxxtra curricular studies.

A company can't be simmulaneously be an NFP organisation and a commercial entity. (On a related note I scoff at the RIAA trying to pass themselves off as NFP.)
I dont think there are any great rules

American companies usually use .com, UK companies use .co.uk, organisations (profit or no) usually use .org
There are too many TLD's these days :(
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