Content Lives On

from the can't-get-rid-of-it... dept

It seems that the US government is learning a lesson that the music industry is still trying to get their heads around. Once content is online... it doesn't go away. So, even as the government start seizing domain names, that doesn't mean they stop the content from existing. For example, the big story this week was how the government seized the domain for ISONews.com. But, all they did was redirect the domain name - meaning the content lived on. For a while, people were still going there by going directly to the old IP address, but now someone has setup a new domain for it with the creative name "stolemy.com". I wonder how long until the government seizes that domain as well. How many domains do they need to seize before they should realize that content itself shouldn't be illegal...
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  1. identicon
    dorpus, 28 Feb 2003 @ 7:41pm

    But

    Would you say the same about kiddie porn?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Joe Scmoe, 28 Feb 2003 @ 10:04pm

    Re: But

    Porn, Schmorn...

    Hijacking [the domains] without due process is a bad precedent and is not tolerated elsewhere!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Joe Scmoe, 28 Feb 2003 @ 10:10pm

    Re: But

    ...or shouldn't oughta anyway.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    capn_fishy, 1 Mar 2003 @ 3:49am

    No Subject Given

    I just checked stolemy.com and it's some crap blog site

    maybe it's been removed already...

    link to this | view in thread ]


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