Saturday, November 27, 2010
A Question of Methodology
or: The Method is the Message
Domains are being seized by the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security under the auspices of ICE. Not only are they being seized but it is happening without any notification but also apparently with the assistance of ICANN.
...ICANN totally bypassed GoDaddy and assisted the U.S. Government in the seizure of [Torrent-Finder].
...Google can produce the same results that Torrent-Finder, or any torrent search engine out there ...[If] Google can perform exactly the same types of searches and probably return even better results why are the sites doing the same thing being seized?
Obligatory Statement: Stealing is Bad.
Another Obligatory Statement: Unequal application of The Law is Very Bad.
Now, some Obligatory Questions:
What about the idea of a Cease and Desist Letter?
What do the functions of Homeland Security and ICE have to do with torrents of pirated material?
Isn’t this a tad heavy-handed considering the subject matter in question?
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