Z-Library: More Domains Seized Than Any Other Pirate Site in HistoryAndy Maxwell, 21 Jul 12:45 PM After much legal wrangling, in May 2015 the Stockh
 | After much legal wrangling, in May 2015 the Stockholm District Court ordered the Pirate Bay's .SE domains to be handed over to the Swedish state. While the loss of thepiratebay.se and the lesser known piratebay.se had important symbolic value, the Punkt SE registry – which defeated rightsholders' attempts to hold it liable for Pirate Bay's infringements – warned that domain seizures would prove ineffective in the fight against piracy. The Pirate Bay's response was to spawn a domain name 'hydra', with each head of the mythical beast representing a new domain with a lesser known extension. Variants such as thepiratebay.gs, thepiratebay.la, thepiratebay.am, thepiratebay.mn, and thepiratebay.gd, were incorporated into a new TPB logo but very quickly, those domains began to fall too. Domain Seizures Are Effective When Suspects Can't Buy More Deploying multiple domain names, that made no effort to hide affiliation with a specific site, was relatively rare nine years ago. Suspensions and ...Read More | It's no secret that online piracy presents a major challenge to copyright holders. With owners of pirate sites largely unresponsive, search engines and other online intermediaries are often asked to intervene. In most cases, these takedown efforts are outsourced to third-party companies. These outfits scour the web for links to infringing material and subsequently ask the operators of these sites and services to take action. Google processes more takedown requests than any other company. This includes infringing content stored on Drive and YouTube, as well as links to pirated content indexed by Google. We recently reported that the total number of takedowns processed by the search engine is nearing 10 billion. Busting a Billion URLs Google Search officially began reporting these numbers publicly in 2012. Initially, the takedown efforts were largely driven by music and movie industry companies, with the adult entertainment outfits taking over after that. Today, however, the publishi...Read More |
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