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The Pirate Bay now owns IFPI.com

IFPI.com, the domain previously owned by the infamous anti-piracy outfit, The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has now somehow found its way into the hands of The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent tracker.

Making the situation even more ironic, The Pirate Bay admin team says it will now use the domain to host the newly founded International Federation of Pirate Interests.



The main domain of the IFPI, ifpi.org, is still working but anyone trying to access ifpi.com are redirected to a Pirate Bay server with a splash screen showing "International Federation of Pirate Interests."

Brokep, one of the admins of the Pirate Bay had this to say, "International Federation of Pirate Interests (IFPI) is the new international federation we're starting in order to get the word of piracy spread."

When asked how they got the domain, Brokep responded, "It's not a hack, someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it's ours and we're keeping it."

Im sure everyone agrees the Pirate Bay will be a better host than the IFPI.

Source:
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Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 12 Oct 2007 17:54

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• 31 comments

• H0bbes

  LOL ROFLMAO HAHAHAHA!!!!

  12.10.2007 18:09 #1

• vinny13

  What do they mean by,"spread the word of piracy?"

  12.10.2007 18:23 #2

• nintenut

  Bwahaha! Another step in the right direction! TPB forever!

  12.10.2007 18:48 #3

• chaos_zzz

  piracy corps NICE!

  12.10.2007 19:17 #4

• armorthis

  I love TPB
  nothing stops them

  12.10.2007 19:48 #5

• Bucknekid

  That's just umm to funny. I would like to know the real story behind this and how it came about.

  12.10.2007 19:48 #6

• Unfocused

  It will be interesting to see if any legal proceedings come of this.

  12.10.2007 21:17 #7

• Blackjax

  bwahahahahhahahahahah..............
  ahahahhahahhahahahhahha...........
  ahahhahahahhhahahhahahhah........
  ah......ah......ah......ah.......
  
  
  
  uh oh I think I just soiled myself!
  
  
  Absolutly positively undeniably freakin hilarious!

  12.10.2007 22:26 #8

• Degallle

  If you check the ifpi is actually .org, unless they changed it within the time frame but I don't know. So I'm assuming the .com was never taken so congrats and getting it and can't wait to see it!

  12.10.2007 22:30 #9

• furchtlos

  THIS IS AWSUM. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

  12.10.2007 23:01 #10

• theridges

  TPB are on the frontline of torrents and piracy they really love embarrassing those anti-piracy groups.

  13.10.2007 00:01 #11

• SamNz

  lol well done to TPB :)

  13.10.2007 01:56 #12

• Bubba1982

  About time that the pirates struck a blow back at the anti-piracy pansies.

  13.10.2007 02:59 #13

• delboy54

  The authorities should have no problem spotting those onvolved in piracy surely.
  They have one leg a stick usually an eye patch a parrot on one shoulder and mutter something about "AHHHHHHHH JIM LAD."
  Quite easy to spot in this day and age surely

  13.10.2007 03:43 #14

• duke8888

  Thats like letting the fox in the henhouse it will be easy for them now to track more people for all types of infractions. Bet memebrship drops LOL>

  13.10.2007 04:02 #15

• pryme_H

  Ironic merger indeed!
  

  
  

  13.10.2007 07:23 #16

• TeeLow

  Originally posted by delboy54: The authorities should have no problem spotting those onvolved in piracy surely.
  They have one leg a stick usually an eye patch a parrot on one shoulder and mutter something about *"AHHHHHHHH JIM LAD."
  Quite easy to spot in this day and age surely*Harry Mud from the Star Trek Ep "The Touble With Tribbles." Or was it from the other ep when they were trapped on a planet with a bunch of beautiful androids???

  13.10.2007 08:33 #17

• BIGnewb

  lol

  13.10.2007 09:45 #18

• venomX05

  HELL YEAH!!! WAY TO GO PIRATEBAY

  13.10.2007 10:46 #19

• ZippyDSM

  The word piracy is a misnomer one can only be a pirate if one sells their...er....warez..., I wish both sides would lay off the cool sounding retortic....

  13.10.2007 11:54 #20

• borhan9

  Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me i love this kinda news.

  13.10.2007 12:32 #21

• mediabob

  this could be one of the most ironic things ever. HAHHAHA

  13.10.2007 14:22 #22

• EricCarr

  TPB will own the internet soon! LOL

  13.10.2007 19:29 #23

• ShoeBark

  Originally posted by ZippyDSM: The word piracy is a misnomer one can only be a pirate if one sells their...er....warez..., I wish both sides would lay off the cool sounding retortic...."4. a person who uses or reproduces the work or invention of another without authorization." - Dictionary.com

  13.10.2007 20:25 #24

• kivandrew

  ROTFLMAO

  14.10.2007 05:16 #25

• beffman

  who said there was no justice in the world - god moves in mysterious ways - nicceeee!!

  14.10.2007 05:17 #26

• Sliztzan

  omg I love it!!!! Yahooo!!! You go Pirate Bay!!!!!
  
  Never fear! Underdog is here!!

  14.10.2007 10:30 #27

• maryjayne

  I love how the Pirate Bay keeps coming back to kick the autorities in the nuts over and over again.

  15.10.2007 13:59 #28

• spydah

  Keep slapping dat bleep bleep lmao!! Very good move. I wanna see what happens next.

  15.10.2007 15:34 #29

• dicky2868

  thank you for your info,thank you for your post

  27.10.2007 21:19 #30

• qazwiz

  Quote:ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 13 October 2007 10:54 _
  The word piracy is a misnomer one can only be a pirate if one sells their...er....warez..., I wish both sides would lay off the cool sounding retortic....not quite... true that it is a misnomer... but I bet there wasn't so much as a farthing received for even one barrel of rum stolen by the pirates of yore
  
  No, a pirate has the loss of property as one of the defining parameters and the recording industry hasn't lost one single note to anyone in the p2p community ... IN FACT... they received at least one sale in the last year because I did download a movie (Pink Panther to be exact) and I can truthfully state that without seeing that cam of the movie I would never have paid $20 for that movie
  
  what they call a pirate is in reality just a lonely guy sitting in their small room making an exact copy of an original that is in no way harmed by the process
  
  now in the days of pirates they did have persons that fit that description... they were called MONKS
  
  I am proud to say "I am a MONK"

  31.10.2007 20:04 #31