As part of the ongoing program, "Operation in Our Sites," the wildly out-of-control Department of Homeland Security has seized more domains it has decided are facilitating copyright and trademark infringement. Keep in mind these companies were not found guilty of anything in a court of law. The DHS just decided the businesses were doing something wrong, and they seized the domains.
Imagine if you owned a business and the DHS just decided to take your domain without even allowing you a chance to defend your business in court. You could go bankrupt before you could get the problem corrected.
By the way, do you remember when the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to be protecting us from terrorists? At what point did counterfeit merchandise and pirated movies become a threat to national security? Would the DHS not be serving us better if they would use their resources to control the borders and watch terrorist groups?
Here are the latest domains seized by the DHS. Certainly, there will be more.
Re1ease.net
Watchnewfilms.com
Dvdcollectionsale.com
Dvdscollection.com
Dvdsetsonline.com
Newstylerolex.com
Mygolfaccessory.com
Overbestmall.com
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February 2, 2011
Sports Domains Seized by Federal Government
Just in case you are not already freaked out enough by the increasing reach of the United States federal government, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has just seized some more Web domains without a trial for allegedly facilitating access to pirated streaming sports content.
Given the way the Egyptian government has abused it's power by shutting down the nation's Internet as a measure to control civil unrest, American citizens should be alarmed by how freely the United States government is seizing domains from companies it suspects are breaking the law.
The US government has already seized domains of companies it suspects of selling counterfeit merchandise. Now it is going after streaming sport content. What will be next? If the United States government is willing to ignore due process to seize domains under these circumstances, where will they draw the line? We are only a few steps away from the seizure of Web sites critical of the government and politicians that ICE determine might be breaking some law.
Here is a list of the Web sites seized by the US government on February 2, 2011.
atdhe.net
channelsurfing.net
firstrow.net
hq-streams.com
hq-streams.net
ilemi.com
iilemi.com
iilemii.com
rojadirecta.com
rojadirecta.org
Just to demonstrate how ridiculous and ineffective all of this is, ATDHE.net is already back online as ATDHE.me.
Given the way the Egyptian government has abused it's power by shutting down the nation's Internet as a measure to control civil unrest, American citizens should be alarmed by how freely the United States government is seizing domains from companies it suspects are breaking the law.
The US government has already seized domains of companies it suspects of selling counterfeit merchandise. Now it is going after streaming sport content. What will be next? If the United States government is willing to ignore due process to seize domains under these circumstances, where will they draw the line? We are only a few steps away from the seizure of Web sites critical of the government and politicians that ICE determine might be breaking some law.
Here is a list of the Web sites seized by the US government on February 2, 2011.
atdhe.net
channelsurfing.net
firstrow.net
hq-streams.com
hq-streams.net
ilemi.com
iilemi.com
iilemii.com
rojadirecta.com
rojadirecta.org
Just to demonstrate how ridiculous and ineffective all of this is, ATDHE.net is already back online as ATDHE.me.
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