sezing ICANN ???

[Colin McGregor]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:38 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
>>
>> would you have said newspaper shut down for helping people find
>> criminal activity?
>
> No.  In my example it was of someone actually participating with the intent
> of selling them fraudulent goods, not someone who just happens to report it,
> with no other interest.

So, back to the original issue the 70 domains grabbed by the US
Government. I don't have a problem with the government grabbing the
domains that were selling counterfeit designer goods (where the
website owners were making $$ off each knock-off sold). Where I have a
problem is with grabbing sites which were just indexes to where you
could find material under copyright, posted without the copyright
holders permission.

Obviously newspapers doing stories on crime or the people who list of
torrent indexing websites hope to make $$ by selling advertising
space, but that isn't the same thing as making money off the crime
itself.

Colin McGregor
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