The easiest way to hurt a pirate site, at least temporarily, is by taking away its domain name. Historically, domain name registries have been hesitant to take action but with the right approach, progress can be made. This week, anti-piracy group BREIN reported that following their complaints, the .nl and .eu registries took action against several ‘pirate’ domains. On closer inspection, it appears that copyright has little to do with it.
Are there piracy related websites with a domain from the EU or any western country? I thought for this very reason they always go for .to, .cc, .in and so on…
Who’s behind this new push to stop piracy? The NFL? It’s gotta be coming from somewhere.
I’d bet money it’s the soccer industry.
They are raising prices obscenely and more people are moving to alternative sources to watch it. Those sources are generally IPTVs and the industry is bleeding subs a an allarming rate because (according to them) piracy. Of course, the fact that in countries like Italy, a soccer sub goes over 60€ a month and can be closer to 100€, is not to blame for the users turning to iptvs…
I hope more people migrate over to I2P. Personally I am slowly cross seeding my library of high res Linux ISOs.
