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Kocowa Secures Win Against Dramacool Pirates, U.S. Court Grants Domain Takeovers
### The Ultimate Domain Takeover
If you thought playing hide-and-seek was hard, try being a pirate site operator dodging a federal lawsuit.
For a while, the mystery behind the shutdown of the massive streaming network Dramacool was anyone’s guess. But thanks to some deep-diving into court records, we now know that Wavve Americas (the parent company of Kocowa) was the one pulling the strings.
The legal battle got particularly interesting recently. Since the site operators were scattered across the globe—from Thailand to New Jersey—and essentially refused to show up in court, a U.S. judge decided to take matters into his own hands. Instead of chasing elusive defendants for money they likely won’t pay, the court granted a “default judgment” that allows Kocowa to actually take over the domain names.
Here is the breakdown:
- The Goal: To stop the cycle of pirates moving to new domains every time one gets shut down.
- The Win: The court ordered the transfer of 16 specific domains (including sites like asianwiki.co) to the legal streaming service.
- The Catch: While the judgment is a massive victory, some pirate sites are still stubbornly online, and it remains to be seen if all international domain registrars will actually obey a U.S. judge.
It’s a bold new chapter in the war between copyright holders and the internet’s most creative pirates.