Most notorious download sites

Each year, members of the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus (congressional member organization focused on anti-piracy), together with the heads of the RIAA and MPAA, publish a list of the "Top Priority Countries," aka "Piracy Watch List" which they claim lack intellectual property enforcement.

For the first time ever they added a list of the world’s top 6 most “notorious” illegal websites that are “overwhelmingly used for the global exchange of illegal movies, music and other copyrighted works.”  According to Zeropaid.com, these websites are, in no particular order: Baidu (China), IsoHunt (Canada), Mp3fiesta (Ukraine’s), RapidShare (Germany), RMX4U.com (Luxembourg) and The Pirate Bay (Sweden).

The RIAA blames these sites and services in particular for “undercutting the ability of legitimate services to compete and thrive in the global marketplace, and displacing thousands of jobs that rely on the global protection of copyright.”

21 May 2010