{"id":97450,"date":"2016-07-01T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97450"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T09:15:08","slug":"several-torrent-sites-suspended-in-domain-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/97450-several-torrent-sites-suspended-in-domain-crackdown","title":{"rendered":"Several torrent sites suspended in domain crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several &#8220;pirate site&#8221; domain names have been suspended following complaints from the Motion Picture Association of America, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/mpaas-domain-name-policing-results-in-first-suspensions-160630\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This follows an agreement between the MPAA and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donuts.domains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donuts <\/a><\/strong>registry to take down pirate sites, most notably those with a &#8220;.TLD&#8221; domain name.<\/p>\n<p>The MPAA and domain registry are reportedly happy with results so far and &#8220;hope that other key players will join their efforts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donuts has been extremely careful in balancing the rights of its end-user customers along with those of copyright holders.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to believe this is a useful and efficient manner for addressing blatant online piracy, and we encourage others in the domain name community to follow suit with similar programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only time will tell whether this is the start of bigger takedowns and how long it will take for the affected sites to be back up and running.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The world\u2019s first self-driving fatality has been confirmed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/97394-the-worlds-first-self-driving-fatality-has-been-confirmed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The world\u2019s first self-driving fatality has been confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazing gaming and tech specials\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97232-amazing-gaming-and-tech-specials-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazing gaming and tech specials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why your driverless car could try to kill you\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/96503-this-is-why-your-driverless-car-could-try-to-kill-you.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why your driverless car could try to kill you<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several &#8220;pirate site&#8221; domain names have been suspended following complaints from the Motion Picture Association of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,10516,20034,101,20032,10012,8305],"class_list":["post-97450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-domain","tag-mpaa","tag-piracy","tag-suspension","tag-torrent","tag-torrentfreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97474,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97450\/revisions\/97474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}