Notorious markets is a term used in the United States to describe websites and physical markets where large-scale intellectual property infringement takes place.
Since 2006, the members of the International Intellectual Property Alliance in conjunction with the Office of the United States Trade Representative has annually filed a list of Notorious Markets as a part of their Special 301 Report to the U.S. federal government. It lists virtual markets (websites) and physical markets outside of the US where large scale copyright infringement takes place and recommends trade sanctions for countries with weak copyright protection enforcement. Since 2010 the list is separately issued as a part of an out-of-cycle review between the main report submissions.
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
Cuevana
Demonoid
EX.UA
IsoHunt
Luohu Commercial City
Movie4k.to
OpenBitTorrent
Silk Street
SlySoft
T411
Taobao Marketplace – Owned by Alibaba spent $461,000 in 2012 lobbying the U.S. government for its removal prior to its IPO. It was added back in 2016.
The Pirate Bay
Torrentz
Tucows – Registrar
VK
AllOfMP3 - Closed in 2007.
BTJunkie - Closed in 2012.
Gougou.com
KickassTorrents - Seized in 2016
Megaupload - Domain and servers seized in 2012. Ongoing legal action. Relaunched as Mega.
RapidGator
Baidu - Settled a lawsuit with various music rights holders in order to be removed from the list.
PaiPai.com - "Had taken various measures to address complaints about its role in facilitating the distribution of pirated and counterfeit goods."
Pulga Rio Market
RapidShare - Reforms in take down procedures by in 2011 resulted them in them being removed from the list. Ceased operations in 2015.
Sogou - "Made notable efforts to work with rights holders to address the availability of infringing content on its site."
Xunlei
