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[ PRIVACY Forum ] U.S. accidentally seizes 84K innocent domains
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Wed Feb 16 13:55:15 2011
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:32:09 -0800
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U.S. accidentally seizes 84K innocent domains
http://j.mp/hFYqKX (TorrentFreak)
The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this
week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security's ICE office
proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit
goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is
that one of the targeted domains belongs to a free DNS provider, and
that 84,000 websites were wrongfully accused of links to child
pornography crimes.
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