City Of London Police Cannot Seize Domains Just Because

[rcjordan]

City Of London Police Cannot Seize Domains Just Because Hollywood Says The Websites Are Infringers

"The only registrar who apparently resisted was EasyDNS, who pointed out that there's such a thing called due process. Furthermore, EasyDNS pointed out that the registrars who complied with the order almost certainly violated ICANN policies for registrars, which has a very specific set of conditions under which a registrar can freeze a whois record, none of which include 'because some Hollywood-controlled police force says so.' "

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140109/09444625820/turns-out-city-london-police-cannot-force-domain-registrars-to-block-transfers-sites-just-because-it-says-so.shtml

[gm66]

And yet the DoJ can extradite people just because a US citizen claims they were ripped off by them, it's dangerous doing business across the ocean these days :

(sorry it's the Daily Fail)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545643/Wed-die-rot-US-jail-say-British-couple-facing-extradition-1m-expenses-fiddle.html