and if they would have issued a takedown notice instead of seizing the domains, I'm confident mooo would have complied. If they don't comply, then seize the domains and issue fines. Problem solved. It's called due process.
Could be? Yes. That's what happened. Should be? No. The folks in ICE and HS (and now you) have demonstrated they don't understand the technology they're legislating.
No one is claiming they aren't targeting child porn. The assertion is that they're doing it badly and that due process and a working knowledge of the technology would greatly help the cause. Seizing a few domain names isn't helping reduce the amount of children being abused but it has caused damage to potentially thousands of innocent individuals and businesses, by linking them to child pornography.
...a lifetime to get anything? All you need is an external hard drive and an hour or two and you can have a few hundred gigs of mp3s (to keep as backups of music you legitimately purchased.) This is significantly faster than a torrent on a crappy DSL connection.
I feel that any and all campaign contributions made by corporations IS representative of the corruption that exists in our government. The article just pointed out one example of a flawed system.
Are you sure you don't want to know what kind of music he liked or video games he played? Surely you want to blame everyone that might have had any influence into the deranged actions of a lunatic.
Wouldn't it be relatively easy for the defendant to remove the allegedly infringing content from the server in the time between the domain name seizure and the alleged trial?
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