US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
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Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#2This article is from 2011...how has ICE used this power since then?
Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#3This article is from 2011...how has ICE used this power since then?
Since then, they've shut down atleast 1 million if not more websites.
Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
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Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#5Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since then, they've shut down atleast 1 million if not more websites.
Source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites
Keep in mind, they classify, for example 'scihub' as a piracy site [1]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16618874/court-pirate-sci...
Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#7In more recent news, this tech https://handshake.org/ is aimed at this kind of jurisdictional issue. Limiting the reach of a US court or any other central org for that matter at shutting down a domain .com, .net or other.
Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites Keep in mind, they classify, for example 'scihub' as a piracy site [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16618874/court-pirate-sci...
Which it is, surely? Don't get me wrong, sites like it are on my most-visited list on every device, but they are for pirating papers, no?
Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites Keep in mind, they classify, for example 'scihub' as a piracy site [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16618874/court-pirate-sci...
Which it is, surely? Don't get me wrong, sites like it are on my most-visited list on every device, but they are for pirating papers, no?
If you consider articles and research that the public paid for and suddenly don't have access to, to be piracy, then sure.
To be clear, people have given their life for this cause.
Re: US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (2011)
#10In more recent news, this tech https://handshake.org/ is aimed at this kind of jurisdictional issue. Limiting the reach of a US court or any other central org for that matter at shutting down a domain .com, .net or other.
Handshake is awful. Because they decided to allow anyone to register a TLD there's no way to determine if a name needs to be resolved with handshake other than trying to resolve it.