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I'll play a bit of a contrarian and say that I'm not the least concerned about this. The Internet is a grossly complicated system, and the ability to have nflj
by risotto 16y ago
I'll play a bit of a contrarian and say that I'm not the least concerned about this.
The Internet is a grossly complicated system, and the ability to have nfljerseysupply.com resolve to your website is far from a given right. ISPs, web hosts, search engines, ICANN, governments, browser vendors, OS vendors, and more all have to cooperate for a domain to work. Each player has to cooperate to make your website reachable, therefore each player has the ability to make your website hard or impossible to reach.
It's scary if the US government has powerful legal tools to take down any website (see: China), but the US govt. has a track record of going after only a few criminals, not performing political censorship. So do all the players. Also, COICA, which would make this act easier, got gummed up in the Senate.
I don't know any details, but would you expect counterfeit websites to remain humming along while DHS raids warehouses involved with illegal manufacturing, importing or exporting of counterfeit goods?
The torrent search engine is a different beast, and by following legal precedent I'd expect the owner to be cleared of wrongdoing if and when it goes to trial. I also suspect the owner is being disingenuous, and was operating the site under a shell, making it difficult to find him and serve him warnings or legal papers.
I also interpret this as a sign that the media corporations are fucked. This is the best they can do with their global power, influence and money? Take out some counterfeiters and one lowly search engine?
Yes, we must be diligent against the government and corporations, but if this is all they have then it's nothing I'm going to get worked up over.
- smokeyj 16y ago> ISPs, web hosts, search engines, ICANN, governments, browser vendors, OS vendors, and more all have to cooperate for a domain to work. One of these things is not required for my browser to work. Hint: it starts with "govern"
- risotto 16y agoICANN, world governments and the entire TLD system are incestuously intertwined. ICANN is a US corporation mandated by Clinton and George W. Bush. The Internet is ARPANET.
- adestefan 16y agoThe Internet is ARPANET. Actually it's not. The Internet that we know today is really NSFNet that was created because the DoD was sick of freeloaders riding on ARPANET. The DoD had very little input on the creation of NSFNet. What was ARPANET is now NIPRNet. This is one of the many things that I learned by reading Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet. It's a fascinating look at how the Internet was created and focuses mainly on the financial and management side of the creation from about 1965-85.