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[ PRIVACY Forum ] City Of London Police Cannot Seize Domains Just
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Sat Jan 11 15:18:34 2014
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:54:48 -0800
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City Of London Police Cannot Seize Domains Just Because Hollywood Says
The Websites Are Infringers
http://j.mp/1m0bWKd (TechDirt)
"The owners of at least one of the frozen domains sought to then
(smartly) move the domain to EasyDNS, who would actually protect them.
EasyDNS went to Verisign with a "request for enforcement" against the
registrar who froze the whois, the incredibly misnamed "Public Domain
Registry." For reasons that make no sense at all, Verisign responded
with a "no decision." EasyDNS appealed that ruling, and finally after
all of that, the National Arbitration Forum has pointed out exactly
what EasyDNS said from the very beginning: Public Domain Registry
cannot freeze the domain ..."
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