"Boscovich remembered a case he’d seen argued back in his Florida days. A maker of designer handbags had been granted the right to seize the bags from the count

"Boscovich remembered a case he’d seen argued back in his Florida days. A maker of designer handbags had been granted the right to seize the bags from the counterfeiters. Because its brand was being harmed by the infringement, the court gave it the ok to seize the bags. A year after Waledac, Boscovich used this argument to seize the Rustock servers." This is fascinating. This is an actual, tangible case where intellectual property law had more teeth, and more negative side effects, than the existing cyberlaws. It's evidence both that trying to take law that applies to physical goods and apply it digitally is not trivial (if even possible to do fairly), as well as how much cyberlaw has lagged behind the evolution of technology, in a context completely separate from the usual ones (DRM, copying = piracy?, etc).