US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 6, 2010 @05:40AM from the routing-around-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, the US government in a highly publicized copyright protection frenzy took the extraordinary step of seizing domain names from foreign movie sites like NinjaVideo.net and TVshack.net. While the seizure raises confusing Internet legal / jurisdiction questions (the US and perhaps the state of Kentucky can seize domain names for foreign companies?), this study shows the legal issues may be moot — the raids mostly failed. Within hours of domain name seizure, tvshack.cc was back up and running (but this time using a Chinese registrar and a Cocos Islands ccTLD)."

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Re:Other countries should start policing Internet by ArhcAngel · 2010-07-06 05:48 · Score: 0, Troll

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Re:Other countries should start policing Internet by daveime · 2010-07-06 07:23 · Score: 1, Troll

I imagine Pravda et al. are equally biased in their own directions.
Nope, I'd say the arrogance of the US is pretty much globally hated. Even their best buddies Israel give them the finger on a regular basis these days.