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More news today.(I had a hunch that the Dept of Justice wouldbe involved.)Marc RotenbergEPIC--------Subject: POLITICO's Morning Tech, presented by Washington's NewsChannel 8: Today: DOJ discusses IP enforcement - NetCoalition opposing Comcast-NBC merger - Fmr. Pres. George W. Bush heads to FB for live book chat - The privacy debate returns
Date: November 29, 2010 5:20:38 AM EST
DRIVING THE DAY: DOJ DETAILS IP ENFORCEMENT - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and ICE Director John Morton are holding a press conference this morning at DOJ where the two will announce "an intellectual property enforcement action," according to the release. This comes on the heels of ICE seizing the Web addresses of several file-sharing websites late last week - more on that below. ICE officials declined to comment on the websites that were taken down.
ICYMI: U.S. CRACKS DOWN ON PIRACY HAVENS - From the NYT: "In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses of a number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security. ... The new seizures also come as a new bill, the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act, is making its way through Congress. The bill, which was approved by a Senate committee last week, would allow the government to shut down sites that are 'dedicated to infringing activities.'" MORE: http://nyti.ms/dOTbmb
On Nov 28, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:Exactly, DHS consolidated functions that used to be in separate departments (Customs, INS)
-----Original Message-----From: Marc Rotenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 11:09 AMTo: Milton L MuellerCc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain andMoreAs a US lawyer, it seems odd to me that the DHS would havethis role. International law enforcement matters are routinelycoordinated by the Dept. of Justice. ICE is a relatively
recent creation, gathering powers that traditionally residedwith Customs and the INS.Marc.On Nov 28, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:Not so odd, Marc, because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ispart of DHS.Customs would be the primary agency involved in transnationalcounterfeiting enforcement actions.Recall ACTA and related negotiations. Interesting that this can go onwithout COICA.-----Original Message-----From: NCSG-NCUC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
OfMarc RotenbergSent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:26 AMTo: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS] U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrentSearch Engine Domain and MoreAccording to the New York York Times, it was the Dept ofHomeland Security (the same agency that brought usairport body scanners) that seized the BitTorrent site and others.
This seems odd since it is the US Dept of Justice that wouldtypically investigate copyright matters.Note also that this action took place prior to Senate actionon COICA.Marc RotenbergEPIC-----------------------------http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html
U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy CrackdownBy BEN SISARIOPublished: November 26, 2010In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federalcrackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses ofa number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized
this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of theDepartment of Homeland Security.
By Friday morning, visiting the addresses of a handful of sites thateither hosted unauthorized copies of films and music or allowedusers to search for them elsewhere on the Internet produced a noticethat said, in part: "This domain name has been seized by ICE -
Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrantissued by a United States District Court."* * *
On Nov 27, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Alex Gakuru wrote:Does this mean *all* search engines with links will be shut down
anytime, including 'Big G'?On 11/27/10, Alex Gakuru <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Why complained earlier on expectations that cash strapped ccTLDsespeciallyin Africa/developing cannot afford parallel servers, databases andtimecosts to enforce third parties IP/copyrights/trademark etcinterests.Itsomehow 'feels' safer NOT to register a .com now?On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]>wrote:The latest info that I've seen is that Verisign assigned new DNSserversat the Registry level, and then locked the domain so that even the
Registrarcan't update it. So now it looks like it may have been VeriSignwho"seized" them. No word on ICANN's role in this situation, if any.On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
So was it ICANN that actually did the seizing?On 11/26/2010 7:25 PM, Michael Haffely wrote:The concerning part about the report from today is that the domainownernever received any complaint or due process before the domainswere
seized.It appears that no Cease and Desist, warrant, suit, or other
criminalcomplaint was brought up before the domain was taken. What if(foranexample) this behavior is taken up by the Patent and Copyright"trolls".What happens to an individual/nonprofit/organization when theyhavetheirdomain yanked out from under them?If ICANN is to seize domains from their rightful owners by demandofalawenforcement agency we need to have a clear, *rapid* appealsprocesstoprevent abuse by corporations, law enforcement agencies, andgovernments.-Mike H.On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Andrew A. Adams <[log in to unmask]>wrote:Very similar moves are happening in the UK, with Nominet (UK non-profitwiththe .uk (and .gb) country-code delegation) engaging with the UK'sSOCA(Serious and Organised Crime Agency *) to remove 1200 "sitesengaged inselling counterfeit goods" recently and now doing a more explicitdealwiththe police to take down the DNS registration for sites "alleged
tobeinvolved in criminal activity".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/nominet_crime/
(*) The SOCA is a rather dodgy organisation, IMHO. When it wassetupthethen home secrewtary made a big thing of it not being actuallypoliceandtherefore not bound by the requirements that the police have torespectthehuman rights of citizens. THat's a recipe for a secret policeoperatingextra-judicially and here we see exactly that kind of approach.I am very worried by these kinds of moves. Zittrain's "The Future
of theInternet" and Mueller's "Networks and States" concerns about
censorshipbecoming the norm not the exception online seem to be comingtrue.WhileI'mnot in favour of criminals having free reign, the trouble is that
allthehard won freedoms such as due process, balance of rights, etc.
seemtobebeing thrown out in the digital domain.--Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask]
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, andDeputy Director of the Centre for Business Information EthicsMeiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/
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--regards,Alex Gakuruhttp://www.mwenyeji.com
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