Over the years we have seen several piracy type websites jump from domain name to domain name. The Pirate Bay famously lost their .se domain and moved on to several like .la,.mn,.gd,.am and .vg. All of which have been since shut down.
Ars Technica published an article about Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old bioengineer turned Web programmer from Kazakhstan who is living in Russia. Elbakyan is being sued by one of the world’s leading academic publishers, Elsevier.
Elbakyan named her website Sci-Hub and started out on .org and had to move to a .io after the .org got shut down. She registered the .io with a Chinese registrar and they have now shut down the .io. The site has moved to the likes of .bz and .cc.
The article explains why Elsevier took action against Sci-Hub.
From the article:
Elsevier’s Science Direct catalogue is behind a paywall at many universities. The publisher isn’t happy about the Sci-Hub site and its domain hopping, calling it “an international network of piracy (PDF) and copyright infringement by circumventing legal and authorized means of access to the ScienceDirect database. Defendants’ piracy is supported by the persistent intrusion and unauthorized access to the computer networks of Elsevier and its institutional subscribers….”
The comment section is pretty active and many wonder if there was public funding included should the papers be free. One commenter pointed out, “And while almost every academic receives public funding, one way or another, that doesn’t change the fact that their research has a copyright, and the journal generally won’t accept an article for publication without copyright assignment.”
Read the full article and conversation on ArsTechnica.com
thepiratebay.se works for me
On 19 May 2015, the .se domain of The Pirate Bay was ordered to be seized following a ruling by a Swedish court.[35][36] The site reacted by adding six new domains in its place.[37][38] The judgment was appealed on 26 May 2015.[39]
.SE acquitted – domain names not to be forfeited by the foundation
The ruling regarding the forfeiture of the domain names thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se was announced on Tuesday. The city court did not uphold the prosecutor’s claim against .SE. However, the two domain names will be forfeited from their domain owner and be transferred to the ownership of the Swedish state.
https://www.iis.se/english/news/se-acquitted-domain-names-not-to-be-forfeited-by-the-foundation/
Can you access https://thepiratebay.se/ ?
Without google blocking you?
I’m a fan Ray, but bans and laws are often locally applied and only locally enforceable.
I prove a world audience and attitude.
PirateBay.com is for sale. A great opportunity to owe all that traffic.
I don’t think there will ever be a solution to domains being used for unethical business practices. It’s constant battle. It is however nice to see action being taken against some of the larger violators, which sends a clear message that this type of activity will not be tolerated. I think the only real way to to prevent such a rampant outbreak of these type developments is to coordinate government agencies to be more active in policing reports as real world crimes. Of course, that would then open the door to more government involvement and regulation online, which nobody seems to want. Even all the honest businesses want the government to keep their fingers off the internet. Sadly, it’s a catch 22, so somewhere, somehow, something has to give so that cyber criminals have harsher punishments and won’t be unreachable.