Hollywood Tries To Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through India Court (torrentfreak.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/24/0124246/hollywood-tries-to-take-pirate-sites-down-globally-through-india-court
- Source link: https://torrentfreak.com/disney-netflix-crunchyroll-try-to-take-pirate-sites-down-globally-through-indian-court/
> The High Court in New Delhi, India, has [1]granted another pirate site blocking order in favor of American movie industry giants, including Apple, Warner., Netflix, Disney and Crunchyroll. The injunction targets notorious pirate sites, requesting blockades at Indian ISPs. More crucially, however, globally operating domain registrars, including U.S. companies, are also compelled to take action. However, despite earlier cooperation, most don't seem eager to comply. [...] As reported by [2]Verdictum a few days ago, the High Court in New Delhi issued a new blocking injunction on December 18, targeting more than 150 pirate site domains, including yflix.to, animesuge.bz, bs.to, and many others.
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> The [3]complaint (PDF) is filed by Warner Bros., Apple, Crunchyroll, Disney, and Netflix, which are all connected to the MPA's anti-piracy arm, ACE. The referenced works include some of the most pirated titles, such as Stranger Things, Squid Game, and Silo. In addition to targeting Indian ISPs, the order also lists various domain name registries and related organizations as defendants. This includes American registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy, but also the government of the Kingdom of Tonga, which is linked to .to domains. By requiring domain name registrars to take action, the Indian court orders have a global impact.
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> In addition to suspending the domain names within three days days, the domain name registrars are given four weeks to disclose the relevant subscriber information connected to these domains. "[The registrars] shall lock and suspend Defendant Nos. 1 to 47 websites within 72 hours of being communicated with a copy of this Order and shall file all the Basic Subscriber Information, including the name, address, contact information, email addresses, bank details, IP logs, and any other relevant information [...] within four weeks of being communicated with a copy of this Order," the High Court wrote. While the "Dynamic+" injunction is designed to be a global kill switch, its effectiveness depends entirely on the cooperation of the domain name registrars. Since most of these are based outside of India, their compliance is not guaranteed.
[1] https://torrentfreak.com/disney-netflix-crunchyroll-try-to-take-pirate-sites-down-globally-through-indian-court/
[2] https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/delhi-high-court/warner-bros-entertainment-inc-v-animesugez-to-illegal-streaming-films-1603273
[3] https://torrentfreak.com/images/high_court_order-8.pdf
It's about time ... (Score:3)
... that registrars outside India's borders told those overreaching Indian courts that their power to order registrars based in other countries to do their bidding ends at India's borders - and sent Italy's courts a cc ...
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Tonga is an interesting one.
A top level country domain .to of which only a small percentage is related to Tonga or indeed hosted on the islands. Are they going to extort a Polynesian nation for the sake of a few pirates?
No problem... (Score:2)
Apparently I already got everything worth getting ;-D
What "notorious" sites are they going after? (Score:2)
Asking for a friend.
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That's what I love about these things; the Striesand Effect factor. As usual, all the targetted domains are listed in the linked complaint (the PDF at the start of the second paragraph of TFS) starting from page 11. Now, I'm pretty sure some (probably most) of those domains are malware infested hellholes, but one thing you'll note is that they almost all list alternative domains with different registrars to prevent this kind of domain takedown from knocking them completely off the web and let them spin up
AI (Score:3)
Is it me or is it confusing that they are trying to nail pirate sites to the wall while AI companies are allowed to do it unchecked? I cannot count the number of ideas that I have had that I never pursued because it would have required automating something I technically wasn't allowed to automate. Now it is only legal for AI companies?
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Copying things for your own use is one kind of copyright infringement, redistributing copyrighted material is another. The former kind is harder to squeeze money out of. Whether they are technically redistributing or not is still a matter of argument.
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I personally don't find it confusing. A pirate site will let me watch a TV program or movie. An AI like ChatGPT will not not let me watch a TV or movie.
Interesting angle (Score:2)
It is interesting to see how over the years and decades these suits n ties are extremely slowly catching on to new attacks. What used to be just DNS pseudo-blocks are now attacks directly on the registrar and forcing registration info including IP logs. And even (ab)using a very likely highly corrupt Indian court, on top of it all.
Any pirate worth their salt would have taken several measures to protect at this level anyway, and plenty of hosters and registrars are happy to shred the uselessly threatening le
Ohhh man (Score:2)
I am no longer going to be able to watch those top quality BollyWood blockbusters ?!?!
They did have a solution once. (Score:2)
And it worked quite well.
Make it easier to just sign up to a streaming site to get access to the content than having to figure out how to pirate it.
I don't consume TV and movie content myself anymore. I did re-watch The IT Crowd again, but that was available for free on YouTube.
1. Not too long ago I wanted to see a new South Park episode only to find streaming it for free was blocked from my country. OK, perhaps I could find a streaming service, but none of those in my country had the latest episodes. I had
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If they work for the people, they shouldn't even ask the question. Just make it legal to download whatever you can't buy. Problem solved.
Thanks for the info (Score:2)
I didn't know about many of those sites. Thanks, Streisand.
The Intended side effects of Globalism (Score:2)
This is the dark side of international treaties - your rights could be subverted in a foreign court and now your domestic apparatchiks have a way around courts, rights, etc. They don't advertise that when you become "global citizen" you have no rights.