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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.co.uk>]

I agree, blocking your sites to the U.S. is a positive move to protect 
yourself and I have for a while now done so on my main site.

Again, I see the U.S. just irritating the rest of the world and shutting them 
selves off!

It's like self sanctioning! 

Peter

Wanged from my Kaiser by a mischievous pixie!

webmaster AT blockaid.me wrote:

>There are two problems with .com/.net domains that cause jurisdiction issues.
>
>The first is that the .com/.net infrastructure is owned by verisign (a US 
>company). Essentially it means they will bow to any request made by the 
>government without question.
>
>The second is that these days server location has very little to do with the 
>claim of jurisdiction. The general principle is that if its possible for 
>Americans to access a website, the US courts will have jurisdiction. This is 
>the argument being put forward in the tvshack.net extradition case (the 
>appeal takes place on 30 July) and it seems to have worked so far.
>
>The best way to protect yourself, should you be worried, is to grab a non-US 
>domain (most people are going with .eu, although any opennic domain will do) 
>and block access to American visitors. The latter method has been deployed 
>by various cyberlockers who got nervous in the wake of the Megaupload 
>takedown.
>
>Although, to be honest, if they really want to shut something down, they can 
>just get ICANN to do it.
>
>Okone 
>Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com>
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>Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 11:21:47 
>To: <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
>Reply-To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
>Subject: [opennic-discuss] U.S. Claims Global Legal Jurisdiction over .net
> and .com
>
>This is somewhat interesting. It looks like the US is going to
>formally try to apply jurisdiction for anything on a .com/.net domain,
>even if the disputed activity is perfectly legal in the registrant's
>country.
>
>http://mfeldstein.com/u-s-claims-global-jurisdiction-of-net-and-com-web-sites-is-edu-next/
>
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