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US, UK Targeting Piracy Websites Outside Their Borders

Posted by timothy on Monday July 4, 2011 @05:12AM from the let's-call-them-corsair-sites-instead dept.

nk497 writes "The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is going after piracy websites even if they aren't hosted in the U.S., by targeting those with .net and .com domain names, which are managed by U.S. company Verisign. Meanwhile, a lawyer suggests even that [kind of connection] isn't needed to take a site to court in the UK, saying as long as the content is directed at UK users, that's connection enough to ensure jurisdiction."

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Re:Since US wants to play it this way by king+neckbeard · 2011-07-04 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

We wear cowboy hats?

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Re:Since US wants to play it this way by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-04 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

The villain you see in Bond films stroking a white cat and saying "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die" doesn't really exist in real life.
Of course not. it was Goldfinger who said that, and it was Blofeld who stroked the white cat. Two completely different people.
Geez.