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British “Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit†attempts to censor the global Internet
We have covered a bit of this story in the past, but it seems to be getting worse, and we have a lot more detail now
“Today, a special police unit can decide that a certain website needs to disappear from the Internet, and threaten its domain name registrar into revoking the address “until further noticeâ€, without any legal basis whatsoever.â€
The PIPCU is claiming success in it’s Operation Creative, a three month campaign where they improperly seized the 40 domains they accused of copyright infringement. Some of the sites were shut down, while some simply moved to a different domain
The owners of the 40 domains, nor their registrars or web hosts were ever served with a court order
How the PIPCU works:
Investigators who work at notorious copyright trolls such as BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) scour the Internet, looking for websites that share copyrighted content
They then forward this ‘intelligence’ to the PIPCU, which then decides whether or not it will attempt to take down the site.
The PIPCU will ask a network of over 60 advertisers to stop placing banners and bankrolling a pirate resource
Finally, after a certain period of time, the PIPCU will send a letter to the site’s registrar, asking it to suspend the domain name. Instead of a court order, this peculiar document refers to an outdated section of ICANN’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement, which states that such accreditation can be terminated if the organisation is found to have ‘permitted illegal activity in the registration or use of domain names’.
This scare tactic causes many registrars to suspend the domains, rather than risking their entire business by losing their ability to register new domains
One registrar has decided to stick up for its users, and the rest of the internet
EasyDNS posted the notice on their blog
Specifically “We have an obligation to our customers and we are bound by our Registrar Accreditation Agreements not to make arbitrary changes to our customers settings without a valid FOA (Form of Authorization). To supersede that we need a legal basis. To get a legal basis something has to happen in courtâ€
Registrars are not ALLOWED to seize a domain without a legal basis. Registrars that complied with the shakedown may actually be in violation of ICANN policies
One customer who had their domain seized at another registrar then attempted to move to EasyDNS, however the ‘losing’ registrar, in violation of ICANN policy’, refused to release the domain
So EasyDNS requested that Verisign, the operators of the .com and .net registries, make a ruling and release the domain. However Verisign rendered a decision of ‘no decision’
Verisign’s reason for no decision? The losing registrar did not provide the requested documentation
EasyDNS has appealed the decision with ICANN and we are watching for further developments
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