While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. Of those, 16 were suspected of illegal streaming. The rest were allegedly selling counterfeit NFL merchandise.
The seizure was conducted under U.S. civil law, not criminal law. That means the affected parties need to prove that the internet domains were not engaging in illegal activity to get them back — an ugly mirror image of the country's usual "innocent until proven guilty" right. Many of the domains were not being operated by U.S. groups. Because they used U.S. domain suffixes .net, .com, and .org, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was empowered to act.
Visitors to any of the seized domains are now greeted by a message from ICE explaining the takedown. According to the government, these messages have already been viewed over 77 million times yesterday alone.
I almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day.
It was gettin' kinda long, I could've said it was in my way.
But I didn't and I wonder why, I feel like letting my freak flag fly
Gee is not any promo good promo?
This makes no sense at all. A case of lobbiests running the country for special groups
No wonder the rest of the world hates us
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"parts left out cost nothing and create no service problems" Boss Kettering
I don't understand what law governs the internet. What country has jurisdiction?
If you launch some servers into space then no country has jurisdiction.
Life is best experienced in the company of a woman.
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker
I'm not here for a long time I'm here for a good time.
Originally Posted by Wild1Poet2
If they are registered with complient authority they can be siezed, just about any can right now. I sold several that were "close" before I got grabbed
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"parts left out cost nothing and create no service problems" Boss Kettering
What country has authority? Is it where the servers are physically located? Put them in the Cayman Islands then no one can touch you.
Or did the world get together and form some global law?
Life is best experienced in the company of a woman.
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker
I'm not here for a long time I'm here for a good time.
I know where this is headed. Soon I won't be able to buy poppy pods or dope without a prescription.
No more bongs, or grow epuipment. And on and on
I almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day.
It was gettin' kinda long, I could've said it was in my way.
But I didn't and I wonder why, I feel like letting my freak flag fly
And no more loud pipes
I almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day.
It was gettin' kinda long, I could've said it was in my way.
But I didn't and I wonder why, I feel like letting my freak flag fly
It is where the icann register is. anything icann registered the gov can grab
.si .zz stuff like that is exempt now
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"parts left out cost nothing and create no service problems" Boss Kettering
I had to googles icann. they are incorporated in CA. So U.S. law and CA law has jurisdiction. But I don't think they can rule outside the U.S. So some Chinese person could just steal a domain name and icann has no jurisdiction.
That happens with trademarks and patents. You can have a valid trademark here in the US but if you don't register in some other country someone could take it. When I was in the athletic footwear business that used to happen to us. Someone would register our name in say Brazil and then try to sell it back to us so we could use it in that country.
The long arm of US law only stretches to the border unless they got a reciprocal agreement with a foreign country.
Life is best experienced in the company of a woman.
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker
I'm not here for a long time I'm here for a good time.
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