Registrars Can’t Hold ‘Pirate’ Domains Hostage Without Court Order

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http://torrentfreak.com/registrars-cant-hold-pirate-domains-hostage-without-court-order-140110/

As part of a collaboration between City of London Police and the entertainment industries, last year several file-sharing related sites had their domains seized by their registrar. Now, a prolonged process initiated by registrar EasyDNS has come to a conclusion, one which found that site domains cannot be seized on the simple say-so of the police or copyright holders.