Anti-Piracy Group Not Amused Pirate Bay Has Its Domain -- Update 1:

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the international equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America, tells THREAT LEVEL it has been victimized by a cybersquatter.

The IFPI's dot.com domain is now owned by Sweden's The Pirate Bay, the popular BitTorrent tracking site. A click to ifpi.com displays the International Federation of Pirates Interests, a newly-created pro-piracy group backed by The Pirate Bay.

Alex Jacob, a federation spokesman, wrote in an e-mail:

The URL www.ifpi.com was acquired by a cybersquatter who appears to have passed it on to an associate of The Pirate Bay. IFPI has already taken legal action to get the domain returned by filing a complaint in early October at WIPO under the dispute resolution procedure designed for classic cybersquatting cases such as this which involve the use of a URL in bad faith.

How exactly did that happen? In a follow-up e-mail, Jacob said. 'When the registration expired somebody else bought it before we tried to re-register.'

Jacob outpointed that the London-based federation still controls IFPI.org.

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(Read Original Article - Via Threat Level.)