Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

[Franck Martin <franck () genius com>]

I'm not saying any other country is better, I'm just saying the Internet is international and we have the power of one 
jurisdiction over many internet resources. This will lead certainly to a push for re-balancing (successfully or not, 
for democracy or against democracy,...).

The USA had a trust position with the nuke button that they should not have pushed, but they pushed the nuke button. 
How the rest of the world will react? will they want to have their say on who can push the nuke button?

Today is may be for the right reason, but tomorrow? And there is the kill switch bill coming up (or not)...

This is all political, and not suitable for nanog, but it opens a can of worms...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Friday, 2 July, 2010 1:20:45 AM
Subject: Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Franck Martin wrote:

> 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...

Yeah, because if the domains were housed in another country than the USofA, that country's court system & law 
enforcement surely wouldn't feel any sort of authority over the machines on their sovereign soil.  It's just the evil 
USA that would dare to think in such a fashion.  Oh, wait....

Is it possible the law enforcement officers went through the standard due process for the country in which they 
operate, Just Like Any Other Law Enforcement Agency Would?  Nahh, no way we could consider that.  It wouldn't allow us 
to bang on the US and make hollow threats about future negotiations.


It's fun to bang on the US, but let's try to keep even a hint of reality & perspective in our rants.  Please?

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TTFN,
patrick