RIAA Seizes Wrong MP3Skull Domain (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:50AM from the oops dept.

Reader AmiMoJo writes: In its continued quest to keep the Internet piracy-free, the RIAA has seized the domain name of yet another MP3Skull site. However, it appears that their most recent target has nothing to do with the original service. Earlier this year a Florida federal court issued a permanent injunction which allowed the RIAA to take over the site's domain names. Despite the million dollar verdict MP3Skull continued to operate for several months, using a variety of new domain names, which were subsequently targeted by the RIAA's legal team. Now MP3Skull.onl, an unrelated YouTube converter, has also been seized.

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Sincere question by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-13 04:53 · Score: 4, Interesting

Since ICANN is no longer part of the USA government, how can a florida court still seize domain names?
1. Re:Sincere question by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-13 05:14 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Since ICANN is no longer part of the USA government, how can a florida court still seize domain names?
  I'm not part of the USA government and neither is my employer but if I were in the USA and a court with authority there ordered me to do something, I'd likely do it (I might draw the line e.g. at torturing babies but not at updating domain records) or else I'd risk imprisonment.