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The Pirate Bay Sails Back To Its .ORG Domain (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Following a report that the Swedish Court would seize the domain names 'ThePirateBay.se' and 'PirateBay.se,' The Pirate Bay is now sailing back to where it started in 2003, ThePirateBay.org. CNET reports: "The site is currently redirecting all traffic from the above two domains back to its .org home." In 2012, The Pirate Bay moved to the .se domain. It then moved to more secure domains, such as .sx and .ac, eventually returning to .se in 2015. Every alternative domain the site was using has been seized. Since the registry that manages the top level .org domains is based in Virginia, it's likely we'll see some legal action from the U.S. in response to the move. Meanwhile, Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij plans to appeal the Swedish's court's decision to seize the .se domains.
The problem is, copyright was made to protect the authors and their works. They get to control who can have a copy, the terms, etc. However, that control was supposed to be for a limited time (I think it was 20 years) but that period has been extended to ludicrous lengths.
In exchange for that extended protection, the authors/publishers should be obligated to sell their work in all countries, including dubs and/or subs for the official languages of the countries. If they can't, then no copyright for you! NEXT!
There should also be penalties for selling low-quality versions of their works, such as only selling a 4:3 version of a movie if the theatrical release was 16:9.