The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain

palpatin writes to let us know that The Pirate Bay has now taken up residence at IFPI.com, a domain once owned by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The Pirate Bay says the site will now promote the International Federation of Pirates Interests. IFPI can still be reached at ifpi.org. Torrentfreak has up a brief interview with Brokep, one of the administrators of The Pirate Bay, who says: "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."

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At least they can call it theft now.

[IndustrialComplex]

Looks like TPB just gave them justification to call TPB thieves instead of just infringers now. Because I'm certain that this DOES deprive them of the original.

This is a bad PR move for them. The only people who really cheer for this sort of thing are the types that would download a copy even if there were a low cost, drm-free authorized source for the files. I would like to see the Pirate Bay lose this, simply because they are going in a direction that I think is a bit more like promoting anarcy rather than protesting outdated laws.

Stealing a domain name is something that I think we all can agree is pretty wrong.