British Police Censor the Global Internet

judgecorp writes "A branch of the City of London police seems to be censoring suspected pirates worldwide, using threats. The Police Intellectual Proerty Crime Unit (PIPCU), acts on tip-offs from copyright owners to attempt to close down websites accused of piracy. the process involves cease-and-desist letters, followed by pressure on advertisers not to fund the site, and finally PIPCU uses threats to the domain registrar (not the ISP), all without any sort of court order."

Court order

[Thanshin]

all without any sort of court order."

Have you recently read of anything done by anyone WITH a court order? I wonder if the courts still remember how to write one.

The template must have been used for the last time with WordPerfect 4.2.

Re:UK

[gstoddart]

Civil rights have been under attack in Britain for a long time.

And Britain is welcome to fuck with their own civil rights.

When they start feeling like they have the authority and jurisdiction to affect the broader global internet, that's the point at which people need to start referring them to Arvell v Pressdram [nasw.org] and reminding them of where exactly their legal authority ends.

And the City of London has legal authority for an exceedingly small area, and precisely ZERO international authority.

Anybody being bullied into doing this is an idiot.

Re:Corrupt City of London

[X0563511]

Yes, songs are acceptable references. Yep.

Re:Actually

[meerling]

Trying to compare the Kardashians to the British Royal Family is like trying to compare dog poop to ambergris.

Re:You get how English works right?

[macbeth66]

Anonymous Coward, are you new to Slashdot ?

Nah. He's been saying stupid things since slashdot first opened its doors for business.