Police London City successfully fights with the largest torrent trackers

It turns out that the police can deal not only with crimes of a purely material and physical nature, so to speak, such as robberies, assaults, murders and other things. The British created a special London police station that deals with crimes related to intellectual property. The branch was called - "Intellectual Property Crime Unit of the City of London Police". So, almost immediately after the creation of this unit took up torrent trackers.

Registrars who serve SumoTorrent and MisterTorrent domains received notifications from the City of London police demanding that they split the domains. This was done, so now the owners of the above resources have lost their domains, we can assume forever. Another resource, ExtraTorrent, also lost its domain, which is still in the status of "suspended". Of course, not all registrars agreed to comply with the requirements of the London police, in particular, the easyDNS organization refused to cooperate, considering such actions by the police as an abuse of power.
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It is worth noting that the messages of the police officers themselves are not something like a warrant obliging the registrar to obey. But the police act wisely and understand the situation, pointing out, among other things, “violations of ICANN policy, violations by registrars of their own Terms of Services, and so on.” Of course, some registrars take such appeals quite seriously, believing that it is better to stop delegating a pair of domains than to lose a business.

It is worth noting that the police send their appeals not only to registrars who work exclusively in the UK. In a letter sent to the registrars, it is recommended to take actions to block domains within 48 hours upon receipt of a warning.

Among other things, registrars are asked to redirect visitors who are trying to open one of the blocked addresses to the page with the police logo. Apparently, as a preventive measure. The so-called “PIPCU Warning Pag” is located at IP 83.138.166.114. Here is what it looks like:



Apparently, the police are not going to stop there, and they plan to close more than a dozen of such sites. And it seems that the "lawyers" have reason for hope ...

Via torrentfreak