Notorious markets

Notorious markets is a term used in the United States to describe websites and physical markets where large scale copyright infringement takes place.

History

Since 2006,^[1] the members of the International Intellectual Property Alliance in conjunction with office of the United States trade representative has annually filed a list of Notorious Markets^[2] as a part of their special 301 report to the US federal government. It lists websites ('virtual markets') and physical markets outside of the US where large scale copyright infringement takes place and recommending trade sanctions for countries with weak copyright protection enforcement. Since 2010 the list of is separately issue as a part of an out-of-cycle review between the main report submissions.^[3]

Whilst the list of markets does not directly form national trade policy:

The United States encourages the responsible authorities to step up efforts to combat piracy and counterfeiting in these and similar markets

— Notorious Markets Report^[4]

Reports

MPAA submission	RIAA submission	Report
		Special 301 2006[4]
		Special 301 2007[5]
		Special 301 2008[6]
		Special 301 April 2009[7]
		Special 301 April 2010[8]
November 2010[9]	November 2010[10]	Out-of-Cycle Review February 2011[11]
October 2011[12]		Out-of-Cycle Review December 2011[13]
September 2012[14]	August 2012[15]	Out-of-Cycle Review December 2012[16]
October 2013[17]	September 2013[18]	Out-of-Cycle Review February 2014[19]
October 2014[20]	October 2014[21]	Out-of-Cycle Review March 2015[22]

Current notable markets

• Cuevana
• Demonoid
• EX.UA
• IsoHunt
• KickassTorrents
• Luohu Commercial City
• Movie4k.to
• OpenBitTorrent
• Silk Street
• SlySoft
• T411
• The Pirate Bay
• Torrentz
• Tucows - Registrar
• VK

Closed markets

• AllOfMP3 - Closed 2007
• BTJunkie - Closed 2012
• Gougou.com^[23]
• Megaupload - Domain and servers seized, ongoing legal action, relaunched as Mega
• RapidGator^[24]

Reformed markets

• Baidu - settled a lawsuit with various music rights holders in order to removed from the list.^[25]
• PaiPai.com - "had taken various measures to address complaints about its role in facilitating the distribution of pirated and counterfeit goods"^[26]
• Pulga Rio Market^[27]
• RapidShare - Reforms in take down procedures by in 2011 resulted them in them being removed from the list.^[28]
• Sogou - "made notable efforts to work with rights holders to address the availability of infringing content on its site"^[29]
• Taobao Marketplace - owned by Alibaba spent $461,000 in 2012 lobbying the US government for its removal prior to its IPO^[30]
• Xunlei^[31]

See also

• Axis of evil
• Special 301 Report
• Category:Notorious markets

References

1. "USTR Announces Results of Special 301 Review of Notorious Markets". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
2. Ernesto (October 27, 2014). "MPAA Reports The Pirate Bay to The U.S. Government". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
3. "2014 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets: Request for Public Comments". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
4. "SECTION III. NOTORIOUS MARKETS" (PDF). Retrieved 2 December 2014.
5. "2007 SPECIAL 301 REPORT" (PDF).
6. "2008 SPECIAL 301 REPORT" (PDF).
7. "2009 Special 301 Report" (PDF).
8. "2010 Special 301 Report".
9. enigmax (November 7, 2010). "MPAA Lists Major Torrent, Usenet and Hosting Sites In Submission To U.S. Government". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
10. "RIAA Reports Torrent Sites, RapidShare and RLSLOG to US Government". November 11, 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
11. "Out - of - Cycle Review of Notorious Markets". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
12. Ernesto (October 28, 2011). "MPAA Lists "Notorious" Pirate Sites To U.S. Government". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
13. "Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets".
14. "115644694 NOT Motion Picture Association of America Final". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
15. "RIAA: BitTorrent Sites and Cyberlockers Should Filter Proactively". November 14, 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
16. F, Sean. "US Official 'Notorious Markets' Piracy List Updated". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
17. Ernesto (October 26, 2013). "MPAA Reports Notorious Pirate Sites to U.S. Government".
18. "RIAA Written Submission Re: 2013 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of NotoriousMarkets: Request for Public Comments". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
19. "Notorious Markets List Focuses Fight Against Global Piracy and Counterfeiting of American Products". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
20. "MPAA Reports The Pirate Bay to The U.S. Government". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
21. Ernesto (October 28, 2014). "RIAA: The Pirate Bay Assaults Fundamental Human Rights". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
22. Andy (March 6, 2015). "U.S. Government Lists Top Torrent Sites as Piracy Havens". Retrieved 6 March 2015.
23. "China's Gougou.com 'pirate search engine' shuts down". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
24. "File-sharing sites continue to bleed – RapidGator shuts down". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
25. Martin, Eric (20 December 2011). "Baidu Removed From U.S. ‘Notorious Markets’ Piracy List After Music Pact". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
26. JING, MENG (13 February 2014). "Paipai.com removed from US fake goods blacklist". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
27. Hoda, Kevin (March 2, 2014). "La Salada is the capital market for counterfeits in South America". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
28. enigmax (February 8, 2012). "RapidShare: From "Notorious Market" To Proactive Piracy Eliminator". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
29. "USTR Announces Results of Special 301 Review of Notorious Markets".
30. Conradis, Brandon. "Chinese Internet Giant Lobbied to be Taken Off List of "Notorious Markets"". Retrieved 2 December 2014.
31. Andy (6 March 2015). "U.S. Government Lists Top Torrent Sites as Piracy Havens". Retrieved 8 August 2015.