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Title: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: Steve on July 05, 2011, 09:47:01 PM http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2083906/claims-com-net-websites-jurisdiction (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2083906/claims-com-net-websites-jurisdiction)
Could be a good opportunity for some press about namecoin (or using a block chain like system for domain name resolution in general). Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: BitcoinPorn on July 05, 2011, 09:48:56 PM Yeah, their people have been preaching this morning a lot, makes sense now lol
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: CNMOH on July 05, 2011, 09:49:11 PM Oh for fuck's sake.
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: SeriousWorm on July 05, 2011, 09:54:02 PM Go Namecoin!
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: chickenado on July 05, 2011, 09:56:01 PM This precedence is setting up a legal nightmare when the semantic web arrives and a "website" gets pulled from 20 different domains and 30 IP addresses "located" all over the world.
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: Steve on July 05, 2011, 09:58:42 PM In other news, the price of squatter names on .co just quadrupled. ;D
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: compro01 on July 05, 2011, 09:59:22 PM good thing we're on .org then.
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: MeSarah on July 05, 2011, 10:16:36 PM Please move this thread. It has nothing todo with btc.
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: Agozyen on July 05, 2011, 10:21:17 PM I believe it does. If the US Government can extradite some poor guy from the UK because they don't like his website (which is legal there), what's to stop them from doing the same thing to bitcoin related dotcom/nets if they decide the don't like bitcoin?
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: Ricochet on July 05, 2011, 10:31:52 PM This isn't the first time something like this has happened (http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/) (Slashdot.org discussion (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2239245/US-Govt-Mistakenly-Shuts-Down-84000-Sites)).
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: theymos on July 05, 2011, 11:07:28 PM I doubt they can maintain that position for long. Other countries are already starting to get upset about the US's power over these domains. ICANN is under pressure to stop it.
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: JBDive on July 06, 2011, 03:04:42 AM Just shows there is no Due Process in the US any longer. On the up side it's actions like these that is waking the general populace up but I fear it will take far more before the mass revolts in whole and says enough is enough. Maybe once TSA starts deploying Viper Storm troopers on I-95 and doing strip searches at the local rest areas or they mistakenly grab the wrong Senator's junk but until then the American people will just sit there and take it.
Title: Re: US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Post by: MtRev on July 06, 2011, 09:27:01 AM wait a min? the .org is safe? wow it's a damn good thing i changed from .com to .org on one of my websites lol
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