The sites they took offline were backup a short time later on.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/...S-Seizure-Fail
http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing...t-back-100705/
I am all for getting piracy under control, but what is more worrying in this story is that apparently, this US govt operation managed to get the registrar to seize the domains.
Of course, the registrars are in the US and the sites were infringing US law. But what if later on the US decides it doesn't like porn anymore and forces registrars to pull the plug on all porn domains in US registrars?
It happened with these piracy sites,
it's happened with the casino sites and it even happened
to a cuban tourism site operated by a non-US national living outside of the US
What if the US controlled ICANN just decides that it doesn't matter if the domain is in a US registrar? Any US govt agency can get ICANN to force a registrar to pull the plug on any domain?
This, IMHO, is bullshit. Do I have to worry now that if a US govt agency tomorrow decides a bondage site is illegal they can just seize my domains because my domains are in a US registrar? Do I have to go looking for a non-US registrar now?
One of those pirate sites just moved to a chinese registrar and regged a new .cc domain. It was backup in less than 24 hours I think.