Hollywood Try to Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through Indian Court

19 days ago

Indian courts have been issuing pirate site blocking orders for over a decade.
Dynamic injunctions were introduced to block not only original domains but also clones and mirror sites.
Dynamic++ injunctions were later introduced to protect unregistered copyrighted content and include domain name registrars as defendants.
Recent court orders target U.S. domain registrars, significantly impacting pirate site operations.
Major Hollywood studios like Warner Bros., Disney, and Netflix are actively involved in these legal actions.
A recent High Court order in New Delhi targeted over 150 pirate site domains, including popular ones like yflix.to and bs.to.
The court orders require domain registrars to suspend domains within 72 hours and disclose subscriber information within four weeks.
Compliance with these orders is inconsistent, with many registrars like Namecheap and GoDaddy not suspending domains.
Only a few registrars, such as Porkbun and Hostinger, fully complied with the suspension orders.
The effectiveness of these injunctions is limited by the lack of global cooperation from domain registrars.

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