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Disney, Netflix & Crunchyroll Try to Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through Indian Court
India’s Court Tried to Kill Pirate Sites Global-Style—Then Got Ghosted by Namecheap & Tonga
Disney, Netflix, and Crunchyroll thought they’d found the ultimate piracy kill switch: an Indian court order that could force U.S. domain registrars and even the Kingdom of Tonga to nuke pirate sites overnight. Spoiler: it didn’t go quite as planned.
The Delhi High Court dropped a Dynamic++ injunction—basically a legal nuke—targeting 163 pirate domains, including fan favorites like yflix.to and bs.to. The plan? Make registrars like Namecheap, GoDaddy, and even Tonga’s government suspend domains in 72 hours. Bonus: they had to hand over subscriber info, including bank details and IP logs. Bold. Ambitious. Very ambitious.
But here’s the twist: most registrars just… didn’t show up. Namecheap? Still running pirate sites. GoDaddy? Crickets. Tonga, the tiny Pacific nation that owns .to domains? Didn’t even acknowledge the order. Only a handful—Porkbun, Hostinger, WHG Hosting—actually complied.
This isn’t a failure of the court’s power. It’s a reminder that global copyright enforcement is like trying to ban memes with a subpoena: the internet just spawns new ones faster. Still, India’s system is the most aggressive in the world—and Hollywood won’t stop coming back for more.
Next time? Maybe they’ll just send a Bollywood action hero with a cease-and-desist letter.