US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail

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)."

PWn3d

[xmorg]

Owned! Now get ice back to work fighting the drug cartels.

Re:Other countries should start policing Internet

[tophermeyer]

But we invented it! Al Gore laid the tubes himself! Shouldn't we get to make the rules and get to say who can use it and who can't?

Netcraft confirms it...

[Lord Dreamshaper]

rule of law is dead

Um...

[Anonymous Coward]

What part of "Ninja" don't you understand?

Re:virus?

[Thing I am]

Stop using anti-virus software and you won't get those annoying alerts.

Re:Other countries should start policing Internet

[Mitsoid]

What gives US the right to seize domains of companies based in other countries and force their laws, views and things like ACTA and banning of internet casinos to citizens of other countries?

If you are in another country YOU OBEY THEIR LAWS.

The US did NOT overstep their boundries. The mentioned websites Hosted part of their website (the pointer to it) In the US. That 'pointer' was seized as it was illegal in our country.

Again:
1. Internet website did business with US Company. (They used a US registrar)
2. US based Registrar now violated US Law
3. US based Registrar was required to give the US Government the illegal 'property'

Don't host any part of your 'business' or 'website' in a country that violates their laws. If you want to intentionally violate the laws of a country, don't do it IN that country. It's just common sense!

If you think the USA is wrong here, GO TO China, or the UK, and break their laws. See what happens.

Side Note: I agree with most net-neutrality ideas. I agree with free speech (as it exists in the US law) on the internet -- (e.g. illegal to yell FIRE or call in bomb threats, but mostly free). Unfortunately the US General Public has almost no control here. Sorry. Big Business buy votes and forces our government to enforce laws they created.

I'm glad the sites are running again. As they are not illegal in other countries I respect your rights to view the content in accordance with your laws... And I'll leave that at that as I'm in the USA... ;-)

Re:Other countries should start policing Internet

[Minwee]

You also read Slashdot.

Re:Other countries should start policing Internet

[commodore64_love]

She reminds me of some of the preachers I see on TV. They spout all kinds of nonsense that doesn't even exist in the Bible. False prophets.

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Re:Other countries should start policing Internet

[commodore64_love]

I generally concur with your assessment. I especially hate how Rush ignores incovenient facts (like that a hybrid CAN go faster than 60).

But I find Beck (on tv not radio) to be the most informative. For example I would not have known that Obama just hired another "czar" to implement rationing under the just-passed Pelosicare bill. And no that's not a misinterpretation - the new guy actually uses the word rationing. Watching an hour of Beck a day is like having a attending a daily college lecture - minus the accreditation - but still informative.

I also enjoy listening to Rachel Maddow although she's more camp and less informative.

Re:Other countries should start policing Internet

[Penguin Follower]

I should add that she had to back up to get off the curb... that's how much curb she ran up. *shakes head*