Internet Pirates Strike Back

October 17, 2007 | by Christopher Nickson

File-sharing site Pirate Bay has been given a very close variant on its enemy's domain.

In a gesture worthy of Captain Jack Sparrow, Internet pirates have fired a broadside against the establishment.
 
The Swedish site Pirate Bay, which specializes in file sharing, evidently had had enough of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which owns the domain www.ifpi.org. So when someone offered them the domain ifpi.com, they happily took it up as a way of sowing confusion among the enemy.
 
According to a Brokep, a Pirate Bay administrator, who spoke to TorrentFreak, the domain name was donated to the company, and has been registered as the International Federation of Pirates Interests.
 
“It’s not a hack, someone just gave us the domain name,” he said. “We have no idea how they got it, but it’s ours and we’re keeping it.”
 
Relations between the IFPI and Pirate Bay have been at daggers drawn for a long time over copyright violation issues. According to an earlier report on TorrentFreak, the original IFPI had requested information from the Swedish police about Pirate Bay.

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