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Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

bonch writes "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized a hip-hop website based on RIAA claims of copyright infringement for prerelease music tracks. They held it for a year before giving it back due to lack of evidence. Unsealed court records (PDF) show that the government was repeatedly given time extensions to build a case against Dajaz1.com, but the RIAA's evidence never came. The RIAA has declined to comment."

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  1. Not too bad. by wcrowe · · Score: 5, Informative

    They only violated four amendments in the Bill of Rights. No big deal.

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  2. Re:Year of lost revenue by houghi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Please don't make it hard on them. They already loose money on every movie they make.

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  3. Privately maintained filter lists are bad by PhantomHarlock · · Score: 3, Informative

    It IS censorship, because invariably the list of sites to block includes many that have nothing to do with porn, including fine art nudes, nude paintings. Will Deviantart be on that list?

    One only has to look at the leaked proposed Australian list to see how bad it is in real life.

    The only way that you could begin to do this is to have an open list that's published, with a redress mechanism for people who's sites have been wrongly blocked. The censors hate this because then it gives people a phone directory for all the naughty sites.