Pirate Bay acquires anti-piracy domain
The Pirate Bay has captured the one of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's domains, IFPI.com.
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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I think that the domain was just a redirect to ifpi.org that was given up or independently owned by a 3rd party.
edit: i sure hope this does not come back and bite TPB in the ass...
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
good for TPB i say.
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!
All hail The Pirate Bay!
Such as?
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!*
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.
4 weeks mandatory vacation
as in most or some europe countries....
BTW, pretty amazed by how many other "bit-techs" and similar names are on the WWW.
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.
.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.)
hah! Norway has 5 ;)
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 :(