A few months ago Sky UK (Sky Broadband) won a WIPO domain name dispute against a website (Skysportslive.**) that was streaming their TV content without permission. But despite taking ownership Sky has forgotten to shut it down and the domain continues to offer links to pirated streams. Awkward.
Ordinarily copyright holders would tackle such things by seeking a court ordered injunction against such sites, which would be followed by a requirement for all of the major ISPs, including of course Sky Broadband, to block the domain. Sadly such blocks remain very easy to circumvent.
However in this case TorrentFreak reports that Sky were able to raise a Trade Mark dispute through the World International Property Organization (WIPO), which a few weeks ago ruled in their favour and passed control of the domain back to Sky (the ruling). Read more…
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