RIAA Seizes Wrong MP3Skull Domain (torrentfreak.com) 49
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.
Sincere question (Score:4, Interesting)
Since ICANN is no longer part of the USA government, how can a florida court still seize domain names?
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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.
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Me too, but then I'd emigrate and take my business with me. I already stopped flying to the US just because of post-9/11 fondle-me laws, which is a shame as I was doing quite well buying and selling there, but I'd rather sleep well at night than on a more expensive bed.
The American government is a product of those who invest into it. Every time someone trades freedom for comfort, they lose freedom.
Re:Sincere question (Score:5, Insightful)
...Every time someone trades freedom for comfort, they lose freedom.
Yes, and the sad thing is that they eventually lose the comfort too.
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Authoritarian followers are not only vicious, they are also stupid. No police-state in history has ever done good things for its citizens, yet these here demand one.
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The USA has never been a democracy. Perhaps you need to revisit civics class to understand the difference between representative republics and democracies. Is there even a country that is run as democracy?
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You refuse to waterboard baby terrorists? Up to Gitmo you go!
the real criminal here... (Score:3, Insightful)
Why hasn't the RIAA been subjected to the RICO act... they certainly have always acted like gangsters and thugs and thieves in the night.
Re:the real criminal here... (Score:4, Insightful)
The Music And Film Industry Association of America makes enough political contributions to make it extremely difficult to bring them to account.
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Because the entire judicial system would need to be included as co-conspirators
Re:the real criminal here... (Score:4, Funny)
Because it's not RICO, dammit! [popehat.com]
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In other words, it's a feature not a bug.
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The RIAA has 0 government powers. They don't seize domain names. You are misunderstanding the difference between the government, embodied by the judicial branch, and an organization bringing a lawsuit against someone who is breaking copyright laws for profit.
BFD (Score:1)
"MPSkull.onl"? Gee, that sounds like an innocent, totally coincidental choice of names.
You guys are reaching for stuff with which to bash the record industry. What if there was a story about a US IT worker who sued for age discrimination, and it turned out to be a fradulent claim? Of course, that type of story would be deemed not worthy of Slashdot coverage.
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It would be if those IT Workers did something like that every few weeks
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well then welcome back to the internet after your extended hiatus
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While largely correct, you statement should be understood "The RIAA acting as a criminal terrorist is no longer news." It's not that they've stopped doing it, it's that it's so common it's no longer news.
There was a time when every murder or robbery was front-page news (in the local paper). OK, the town was small, and it was uncommon, so it was news. Now the towns have turned into cities, and the papers are parts of a chain with no local ownership, and murder and robbery aren't even mentioned. This does
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I guess it just were namesquatters. Using the same name under another TLD for a slightly related service, hoping for typos and/or many visitors from search engines. I am not very sorry for them, they are spammers anyway.
Restitution for negligence on behalf of the RIAA? (Score:5, Funny)
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Their mistake was using a TLD administered in the US. If they had used one that ignored US legal rulings they might be okay. As it is, they would have to sue the RIAA in the US which would be costly and difficult, so basically they are screwed.
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.ONL is a generic TLD that was applied for in Germany (Deutchland), how exactly is that administered in the US?
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I am sure, our courts being fair and all, that the RIAA will pay full restitution for the damages caused by their neglectful actions. :/
Neglectful actions? That wasn't neglectful actions. It was a deliberate act of Piracy.
The RIAA... (Score:2)
is like the modern Mavia. A bunch of thugs.
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Sorry, that's "Mafia"!
Deleteme (Score:1)
If they *really* wanted to make a difference... (Score:2)
If they *really* wanted to make a difference, they should go after the source of most piracy. The root servers of the internet. And if they can't do that, go after Youtube.
Only by the total injuction of all TCP/IP traffic can they insure that there's no piracy.
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If they really want to stop piracy, what they really need to do is go after the real source of all piracy, which is the publishers of the music/videos.
But they are funded directly by them, so it will never happen, it is much easier to play wack-a-mole instead of really fixing the issue by improving people's access to the media.