On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Tei <oscar.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: > *cough* > > USA can take over hostnames ".com" from other countries. > > Then blackout the frontpage of these websites with this image: > http://rojadirecta.com/IPRC_Seized_2011_02_NY.gif > http://rojadirecta.org/IPRC_Seized_2011_02_NY.gif > > So SOPA is not just a US visitor concern, but worldwide.
One more chilling case that is current at the moment is that of Richard O'Dwyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer). He hosted a site where people would share links to (usually pirated) videos of television shows. He is to be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States for having that site, even though the servers were in the Netherlands and he was in the UK. In Europe he would have good chances with a defense that linking to pirated material is not in itself illegal, but there is no such defense in the United States. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
