[LINK] IFPI recording industry site loses domain name to the pirate bay.

[Adam Todd]

At 11:57 AM 16/10/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:


>Daniel Rose wrote:
>>Brief article:
>>http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/pirates-take-over-anti-piracy-website?articleid=605538661
>>Old site, now owned by the pirate bay people
>>http://www.ifpi.com/ifpi/
>>Current site for IFPI
>>http://www.ifpi.org/
>>It's hard to explain to lay people how a legitimate global 
>>association of large companies can't legally get back their website 
>>from a small group of citizens who publicly incite others to break 
>>copyright laws.
>>The article makes no mention of a court case, but what can IFPI do?
>
>I think in the past there have been successful claims through WIPO 
>to regain domain names, but that might not be so easy here as (IMO) 
>ifpi.org more accurately describes IFPI's purpose than does ifpi.com.

Yes but the BOTTOM line (literally in the story) says "Someone just 
gave it to us so we're keeping it."

Tends to imply that someone with a greater claim to the domain name 
used the process to obtain the name.

No doubt the intermediary has a bit of a thing about the Record 
Industry.  Wouldn't surprise me if it's a well known Artist :)