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Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 1 month ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

As the owner of a (non-piracy-related) .to domain for decades, I concur.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So many problem TLDs, good luck with that!

Might as well complain about .ru and .kr while you're at it.

[–] Nyonnyan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Funny, in the document the firm send ICANN, they did mention 3 .ru domains.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wait what.

... sue... ICANN?

Has that happened before?

For any reason?

EDIT:

Apparently yes, I've just somehow never heard of that happening.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A lawsuit for "unfair competition"? How do they figure that? .to is a ccTLD. The Kingdom of Tonga will manage it however it sees fit. Not every country in the world is obligated to subscribe to the same ideas on copyright and digital piracy

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Check out some thread on AI and copyright. That oughta tell you how copyright people "think", for lack of a better word. Not impossible to succeed with that kind of thing in Europe.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

For a sec there i thought their website would be warez.io

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Idk why they think that the Czech Republic has power over the Tongolese government. .to is the internet version of tongolese soil. Czech courts don't have power over foreign flags of convenience

Also love the complaint that tongo isn't following European privacy laws

[–] Seefin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

FYI, .to is the ccTLD for the Kingdom of Tonga, and the word you want is Tongan. Tongolese has definitely made me very happy, thank you for the new word.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ope, demonyms can be difficult sometimes lol

[–] frog_meister@lemmings.world -1 points 1 month ago

Where do people who oppose piracy get their funding?

Oh yeah, the morons paying for shit they could be getting for free.

Thanks, dumbasses. Keep working against your own interests because you're too stupid to even realize what they are.