Yet another incentive for us all to use our ccTLDs instead of the gTLDs run by US-based companies? --c.a. On 07/06/2011 10:11 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: > http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=2310 > > Peter Walker of UK newspaper The Guardian > reports<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-piracy-extradition-prosecution> > that > United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is looking to > extradite owners of websites it believes are breaking US copyrights – even > if their servers are not based in America or are legal in their own > countries. The rationale is that the use of generic top level domain names > like .com and .net, administered by Verisign in the US, provides “nexus” > thus giving them jurisdiction. At issue is the case of tvshack.net – a > linking site run by an English student Richard O’Dwyer. The domain already > was seized by ICE. O’Dwyer now faces extradition. Walker quotes ICE > Assistant director Erik Barnett: > > “Without wishing to get into the particulars of any case, the general goal > of law enforcement is to arrest and prosecute individuals who are committing > crimes. That is our goal, our mission. The idea is to try to prosecute.” > > On linking: > > “I’ll give you an analogy. A lot of drug dealing is done by proxy – you > rarely give the money to the same person that you get the dope from. I think > the question is, are any of these people less culpable?” > > In England there are calls to amend the extradition agreement with the US > so that a UK judge can decide jurisdiction on individual cases.. >