Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

[Franck Martin <franck () genius com>]

The question is because gTLDs operations are in the USA, does it mean that the USA have control over all those domain 
names?

Can we trust solely the USA for such control?

This will come back with a vengeance in the JPA negotiations, ICANN, etc...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Weimer" <fweimer () bfk de>
To: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Sent: Friday, 2 July, 2010 12:39:34 AM
Subject: Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

* Michael Painter:

> BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a major
> crackdown on movie piracy that involved disabling nine websites that
> were offering downloads of pirated movies in some cases hours after
> they appeared in theaters.

Note that some of the domain names in the ICE press release appear to
be wrong (or they have already lost control of them).

Targeting THEPIRATECITY.ORG and not THEPIRATEBAY.ORG is slightly
ridiculous, and it seems that TVSHACK.NET has already reappeared as
TVSHACK.CC.  ZML.NAME is still controlled by the ZML.COM folks, but
seems to have problems right now.  This takedown approach might work
for controllers of non-too-advanced malware, but you need something
better for content which people actually want to access, and which is
indexed by helpful search engines. 8-/

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