Piracy Sites - URL redirections
Carlos Civicos Zarzoso
Anti-Piracy | Copyright & Content Protection | Credential Defense | Investigation & Forensic | Intellectual Property | AntiPiracy Intelligence
Audiovisual Content piracy is evolving: those distributing the pirated content are developing sophisticated ways in which the content is accessible.
There is an increasing trend in content piracy domains where pirated site owners develop a redirection strategy by creating a matrix of URLs. By combining multiple subdomains and TLD extensions to redirect traffic and thereby generate obstacles for those wishing to protect their content. In some cases redirection is applied daily, or every other day.
(Example with infringing domain name removed so as not to promote traffic to the source:)
22nd April: 18.*domain_name*.cat
24th April: ww2.*domain_name*.cat
25th April: c1.*domain_name*.cat
27th April: c2.*domain_name*.cat
2nd May: *domain_name*.win
4th May: w1.*domain_name*.win
5th May: w2.*domain_name*.win
8th May: w8.*domain_name*.win
9th May: w9.*domain_name*.win
9th May: c1.*domain_name*.win
2nd May: *domain_name*.bz
4th May : w1.*domain_name*.bz
7th May: w4.*domain_name*.bz
2nd May: w1.*domain_name*.ch
3rd May : c1.*domain_name*.ch
8th May : c3.*domain_name*.ch
9th May: c4.*domain_name*.ch