Riaa And Copyright Alliance Oppress The Pir To Suspend thepiratebay.org Domain

[Thakur]

Torrent site like The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents have endured an onslaught of lawsuits over the past few years. These sites, specifically The Pirate Bay (TPB), have shifted from one domain to another to avoid conviction; however, The Pirate Bay has recently made a ballsy move by moving back to its original .org domain.

Two weeks before June, The Pirate Bay left the .SE domain that the site has been using in the last few months. According to Torrent Freak, the torrent site decided to switch back to their original 2003 domain - .org. The Pirate Bay's decision to move from the .SE domain was made following yet another run in with the law.
Unsurprisingly, not everyone is pleased with the domain change. In June 2, 2016, CEO of the Copyright Alliance, Keith Kupferschmid, wrote a scathing press release lambasting the The Pirate Bay's recent domain change. According to Kupferschmid, the U.S. Public Interest Registry or PIR should be faulted for allowing the torrent site to use the .org domain.

"The fact that PIR is presently providing a sanctuary for The Pirate Bay to continue its criminal behavior is unacceptable and should stop immediately," quipped Kupferschmid, as published in the Copyright Alliance's official website.

On the same day, the Recording Industry Association of America published a letter that they sent to the PIR, basically expressing the same sentiments as Copyright Alliance. In the letter, the RIAA asked the PIR to take down the .org domain of The Pirate Bay (TPB).

"We ask PIR to reconsider whether it wants its services to continue to be criminally exploited by The Pirate Bay," reads a part of the RIAA's letter to the PIR, as reported by Hypebot.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) has had a long history of shifting from one domain to another in order to avoid facing copyright charges. Aside from instigating domain changes, The Pirate Bay has made even bolder moves in order to circumvent copyright infringement laws.

Notably, the people behind the torrent site tried to buy the principality of Sealand, a micronation, in order to establish to avoid conviction. The Sealand government unfortunately rejected the sale of the island.