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    Torrentz.eu Domain unsuspended and back in action

    A day after the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in the UK got the domain name of Torrentz.eu suspended, the leading torrent search engine is back in action. The site's Polish registrar restored the domain name's DNS entries after Torrentz' legal team pointed out that the suspension was unlawful.

    torrentz-euWith millions of visitors per day Torrentz is one of the largest torrent sites on the Internet.

    Yesterday many of its regular users were in for a surprise though, after their favorite search engine suddenly became unreachable.

    It turned out that the site’s domain name registrar, the Poland-based company Nazwa, had suspended the Torrentz.eu domain. This drastic step was taken after they received a letter from the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit.

    In recent months City of London Police have targeted dozens of domains through their registrars. Some complied, but others refused to take action without a court order, which is appropriate in these cases.

    At first Nazwa placed themselves in the first group, as they were quick to suspend the torrentz.eu domain. However, it appears that the company was willing to listen to reason since their initial decision has now been reversed.

    This morning Torrentz.eu’s old DNS entries were put back in place, replacing the ns1.blocked.netart.pl and ns2.blocked.netart.pl ones.

    The Torrentz team informs TorrentFreak that their lawyer contacted the registrar yesterday afternoon. In a long letter the lawyer explained that the domain can’t simply be held hostage based on a third-party request.

    Among other things, this argument is based on an earlier decision by ICANN’s Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy panel which concluded that a court order is required to take such drastic action.

    While the registrar has not yet replied to the letter, the fact that the old DNS entries have been restored suggests that they admit that the suspension was in error.

    The Torrentz team is happy with the outcome thus far and will continue operating from the .eu domain. The site should be accessible again worldwide, at least to those who have the latest DNS information.

    The UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit informs TorrentFreak that the recent efforts to ask registrars to suspend domain names is part of “Operation Creative.” The websites targeted by the police are identified by copyright holders, and then verified by police officers.

    Update: Responding to the inquiry we sent yesterday, the police sent the following statement explaining how websites are identified and what actions are taken in response. As with the previous initiatives, such as the pirate site advertising blocklist, these fall under “Operation Creative.”

    “As part of Operation Creative, rights holders in the creative industries identify and report copyright infringing websites to PIPCU, providing a detailed package of evidence indicating how the site is involved in illegal copyright infringement. Officers from PIPCU then evaluate the websites and verify whether they are infringing copyright. At the first instance of a website being confirmed as providing copyright infringing content, the site owner is contacted by officers at PIPCU and offered the opportunity to engage with the police, to correct their behaviour and to begin to operate legitimately.”

    “If a website fails to comply and engage with the police, then a variety of other tactical options may be used including; contacting the domain registrar informing them of the criminality and seeking suspension of the site and disrupting advertising revenue through the use of an Infringing Website List (IWL) available to those involved in the sale and trading of digital advertising.”

    http://torrentfreak.com/torrentz-eu-...action-140527/

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    European torrent site live again after UK police suspension

    Torrentz.eu, the popular site where users can search for seeded films is back online following a suspension from UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit yesterday.

    The site, one of the largest of its kind, allows users to search for a torrent file that is seeded by users from across the world. Although providing films for users to download is illegal, offering a search engine to seed meta-data, which is then pieced together by software owned by a user, is not.

    Users were greeted with a City of London police banner when navigating through the site, Torrentfreak.com reported. The notice read: “You have tried to access a site that is under investigation by the UK. This sight is being investigating for online copyright infringement”.

    PIPCU told ComputerworldUK that they contact domain registrars following a copyright complaint from someone in the film industry. While they open an investigation, the site is contacted and asked to remove any illegal material. If a site fails to engage with the police they contact the registrar, which in Torrentz.eu case was based in Poland, and request a site suspension. If the site remains uncooperative, PIPCU places it on the Infringing Website List - a database that is sent around digital advertising organisations in attempt to stifle the site's revenues.

    Following the day-long suspension, the site is now online, but many UK users will be unable to access it due to former legislation that ensured most ISPs blocked file-sharing sites in the UK.

    PIPCU has succesfully wiped out a few European file-sharing sites lately. The London police unit also shut down FileCrop, as part of their “Operation Creative” crackdown.

    Further, in April, one of the largest sports file-sharing sites Sports Torrents Networks shut following threats of 10-year jail terms from police. The site, used by a reported 20,000 UK and international seeders offered links to download European football matches, international hockey, Formula 1 races and sports documentaries.

    It has not yet been announced whether PIPCU’s file-sharing investigations will be a permanent feature, with government yet to make an announcement on the future of its funding.

    A spokesperson for the City of London Police said: “The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has recently contacted a number of domain registrars hosting copyright infringing as part of Operation Creative, and as a result several major copyright infringing website have closed down.

    “Operation Creative is a ground-breaking initiative is designed to disrupt and prevent websites from providing unauthorised access to copyrighted content, in partnership with the creative and advertising industries."

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