https://www.wipo.int/en/web/wipo-alert
Who can use WIPO ALERT?
Advertisers, advertising agencies and their technical service providers can apply to become authorized users of WIPO ALERT in order to access aggregated lists of infringing websites from around the world.
They can use this information in their automated advertising systems to avoid placing advertisements on such sites. In this way, they can avoid subsidizing copyright infringement and protect their brands from the negative reputational effect of association with illegal activities.
The WIPO database is to protect advertising brands? Lol. Not what I was expecting, and pretty absurd to me.
So, can we see the list?
Authorized Users enter into a simple agreement with WIPO which provides that the User will use the data obtained through WIPO ALERT exclusively for preventing the misplacement of advertising on copyright-infringing websites and that it will use its best endeavors to keep the data confidential. The reason for the second restriction is that some countries feel that their lists of copyright-infringing websites should not be publicized, to avoid encouraging visits to those sites.
Confidential.
So, if it’s some countries’ agencies or orgs reporting or something, how accurate is the list?
Does WIPO guarantee the accuracy of the data on WIPO ALERT?
No. WIPO is simply providing a service to its Member States and to the international advertising industry in facilitating global access to data compiled at national level. The national agencies which create the lists of sites remain solely responsible for their contents.
Who is it?
World Intellectual Property Organization 34, chemin des Colombettes CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).
WIPO was created to promote and protect intellectual property (IP) across the world by cooperating with countries as well as international organizations
I wonder if you could get the list as press or data protection offices or under some transparency laws.
Clearnet shall become brainfucked by states and corporations if’n it already hasn’t been, and OpenNIC and Dark Web pirates will reign supreme. Remember, this stuff only really affects public trackers and “cable pirates,” not sophisticated private tracker communities or anything else
Piracy is a the prime example of how to use decentralized systems to fight centralized opponents.
This lesson can be applied to other sectors of economy and politics.
They should absolutely have the tools to fight criminal activity but piracy suffers the same fate as drugs here.
Criminals gravitate towards it because it’s illegal when it really shouldn’t be and that is used to further justify it’s status.
