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ICANN: We Won't Pass Judgment On Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com)
From a TorrentFreak report:Following more pressure from rightsholders, domain name oversight body ICANN has again made it clear that it will not act as judge and jury in copyright disputes. In a letter to the president of the Intellectual Property Constituency, ICANN chief Stephen Crocker says that ICANN is neither "required or qualified" to pass judgment in such cases. This week, ICANN's Dr. Crocker responded to the April letter from IPC, confirming that his group will "bring enforcement actions" against registries and registrars that fail to include abuse warnings in their end-user agreements. However, ICANN also made it crystal clear that it won't be getting directly involved in disputes involving allegedly infringing domains. "This does not mean, however, that ICANN is required or qualified to make factual and legal determinations as to whether a Registered Name Holder or a website operator is violating applicable laws and governmental regulations, and to assess what would constitute an appropriate remedy for such activities in any particular situation," Dr. Crocker added.
Courts. That's the way it's supposed to work. Using bureaucrats and other organizations
for that job is madness.
The Intellectual Property Constituency is just looking for an easy enforcer that they can trigger with an email, instead of using the legal system designed and intended to handle intellectual property issues. It looks like little more than laziness on the part of the Intellectual Property Constituency.
A better car analogy would be the dealership repossessing your car if you become an Uber driver.
Unlike robbing a bank which is rather hard to defend, those "pirate" sites merely run afoul a dubious regulation that's not universal.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.