The Pirate Bay Facing Trouble Due to the .Org Registry Sale
Last updated September 27, 2021
- The Pirate Bay will be one of the most definitive domain suspensions when the sale goes through.
- The private entity that’s about to take control of the public registry will not tolerate law violations.
- The non-governmental non-profit organizations are expressing their concerns for the sale.
The Pirate Bay is trapped in a series of problems lately, with the latest one to be added onto the existing pile being the sale of the Public Interest Registry to Ethos Capital, a private entity. This will generally cause trouble to many “.org” domains, with the danger of cost raises and unbiased suspensions being very real. In the case of The Pirate Bay, the original version of which operates from a .org domain, the problem will be a non-negotiable suspension.
The Public Interest Registry that was responsible for the distribution and registration of .org domains thus far, was requested to suspend The Pirate Bay domain name in the past. Both the MPAA and the RIAA have repeatedly asked for the suspension of various pirate domains that used the public interest domain, but the registrar kept a firm stance against any type of crackdown action. Registrars prefer to maintain their neutrality when it comes to such matters, otherwise, they would deal with requests of this kind all the time, something that way outside their role scope. Instead, all of these matters were taken to courts, and so registrars received compliance orders when action needed to be taken.
While The Pirate Bay operates numerous other domains, fearing that it was only a matter of time to see its original “.org” domain go down, the popular torrent indexing platform never actually faced trouble with it. Based on the first intention signals sent out by Ethos Capital, this approach will now change fundamentally. The private company will not tolerate domain names that indulge in activities that go against the applicable laws, so The Pirate Bay, as well as many other online platforms, will most likely be wiped from the registry.
In fact, a coalition consisting of EFF, Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Creative Commons, Demand Progress, Apache, National Council of Nonprofits, Farm Aid, Casa, and other users of the “.org” domain have sent a letter to Internet Society trying to convince the organization to stop the sale. Already, more than ten thousand people have signed the relevant petition. As they point out, non-governmental and non-profit organizations will now possibly face financial burdens, abusive behavior, unjustified suspensions, and more. For the NGO sector, selling the registry to a private equity firm that has not earned the trust of the community is way too risky to accept, and a betrayal of ISOC’s previous promises.
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