PirateBay Hostile Takeover....
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Software pirates have launched an astonishing smash 'n' grab raid on the music biz, stealing the domain name of one of its foremost anti-piracy bodies.
http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/pirates-take-over-anti-piracy-website?articleid=605538661
The Pirate Bay has now taken up residence at IFPI.com, a domain once owned by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The Pirate Bay now says the site will promote the International Federation of Pirates Interests.
The Pirate Bay is, of course, infamous for being the world's largest BitTorrent tracker with over 630,000 torrents that comprise illegal rips of audio CDs, TV shows and movies, as well as software and video games.
The domain name steal is the latest in a long line of skirmishes between The Pirate Bay and IFPI. IFPI had most recently tried - and failed - to secure confidential files from the Swedish police.
When asked to confirm how they got the domain name, Pirate Bay administrator Brokeup told TorrentFreak:
"It's not a hack. Someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it's ours and we're keeping it." -
i'm going to buy a few TPB tees
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LOL
Give is not likely, might be through some cooperation of sorts. -
Do bear in mind that a Swedish pro-P2P party won a fair number of seats in the recent elections based on liberal usage of music.
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Whois-ing the domain tells more about the story.
Domain Whois: http://whois.domaintools.com/ifpi.com
See any relation between the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V ad in TPB with the "last name" of the registrant?
And here's the registrant's personal webby at brokep.com.
TPB ftw.
Registration Service Provided By: eNom, Inc.
Contact:
Domain name: ifpi.com
Registrant Contact:
Brokep
Peter Kopimi ()
+46.406213000
Fax: +46.406213001
Poststugan 300
Malmoe, 20022
SE
Administrative Contact:
Brokep
Peter Kopimi ()
+46.406213000
Fax: +46.406213001
Poststugan 300
Malmoe, 20022
SE
Technical Contact:
Brokep
Peter Kopimi ()
+46.406213000
Fax: +46.406213001
Poststugan 300
Malmoe, 20022
SE
Status: Locked
Name Servers:
ns.wdr.org
ns2.wdr.org
Creation date: 28 Jan 2007 19:02:24
Expiration date: 28 Jan 2008 19:02:24 -
if what piratebay said is true then its defintely not a hostile take over
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i use the words.. to make it look more garang laOriginally posted by hisoka:if what piratebay said is true then its defintely not a hostile take over 
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Peter Kopimi
is this a real name? seriously.. -
His last name is real. But maybe he copied his "first name" from someone else, I guess.Originally posted by 4getmenot:is this a real name? seriously..