Posted on 02/01/2011 2:30:42 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
US authorities have seized the domain of the hugely popular sports streaming and P2P download site Rojadirecta. The site, which is one of the most visited sites on the Internet, lost its .org domain which now redirects to a notice from DOJ/ICE. Rojadirecta is an unusual target because two courts in Spain have ruled that the site operates legally, and other than the .org domain the site has no links to the US.
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They should have to get a court order to do this.
What a great way to destroy internet-related industries in the US. If this continues, people will start to flock away from US domains/hosts/registrars faster than they can sell their dollar reserves. Only those US companies will suffer in the long term. Maybe it’s time to began to fight back against the ‘entertainment industry’ and their ridiculous self serving business practices.
LOL... just wait till Prez. Osama has the kill switch on his desk...
Fast translation to English: US authorities have blocked access to Rojadirecta.org and now also Rojadirecta.com but we continue and we will continue our service on territorial domain names such as Rojadirecta.es (.me, .in, be...).
We are now on: www.rojadirecta.me www.rojadirecta.es www.rojadirecta.in and in many other domains that are not controlled by US authorities.
Do not send e-mails to our dot com account, the new one ends on .in
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/03/wikileaks-cables-rev.html
Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain’s proposed copyright law
Cory Doctorow at 2:24 PM Friday, Dec 3, 2010
Spain’s Congress is about to vote on a new and extremely harsh copyright/Internet law. It’s an open secret that the law was essentially drafted by American industry groups working with the US trade representative.
But it gets gets more interesting: 115 of the Wikileaks cables intercepted from the US embassy in Madrid were tagged with “KIPR” — that is, relating to “intellectual property,” The big question has been: will El Pais, the Spanish newspaper that has the complete trove of Wikileaks cables, release them in time to affect the vote on the new law?
Spain’s House rejects new copyright law; #cablegate showed it had been written by the US government
Cory Doctorow at 8:03 AM Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010
SO when US corporations buy off the US government to buy off the Spanish goevrnment and fail to meet their objectives, the US corporations use their puppets in the US goevrnment and supercede interntainoal copyright treaties with as much as a US judge signing off on a warrant....
This is Fascism beyond even the wildest dreams of Hitler... even he didn’t expect to control the industries of unconquered foreign nations ACROSS AN OCEAN without a negotiated agreement or explicitly declared threat against the nation state or industry targeted....
This is worse than the false flag that started the Spanish-American war...
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