According to the Wall Street Journal, federal authorities seized 9 domain names of sites that were offering pirated movies.
The nine domain names were registered using U.S.-based registrars, allowing authorities to take control of their site addresses.
Some of the sites themselves were run on computers based in the U.S, in Colorado, Florida and Illinois, but others used computers based in Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the Czech Republic.
The domain names seized according to the report were:
TVSHACK.NET, MOVIES-LINKS.TV, FILESPUMP.COM, NOW-MOVIES.COM, PLANETMOVIEZ.COM, THEPIRATECITY.ORG, and ZML.COM, NinjaVideo.net and NinjaThis.net.
These sites allegedly allowed visitors to stream or download popular television shows and movies.
The report did not cite under what law the domain names were seized.
As far as I know there is no federal law that allows the seizure of domain names.
That of course is the troubling part.
http://www.thedomains.com/2010/07/01...d-on-what-law/
Thoughts? Concerning that the Government itself has taken control of the domains without any hearing or court case? Or fair game?