Macrovision now owns DVDDecrypter, orders removal

[oldfart13]

I remember reading recently that the United Nations was trying to pull the domain naming game out of California. Anyone read that? What happened?

Kofi Annon was trying to get it outta the hands of the US and into the hands of...Communist China and Iran (and several others) to better reflect the International status of the Internet....eeekkk! Hasn't happened yet (thank goodness)...

[ROF]

Good to hear it hasn't happened, but I'd imagine the UN will probably try again. Now that macrovision has DVDD I wonder who their next target will be?

[canadateck]

I respect His restraint. Bashed day in and day out.

[ROF]

I respect His restraint. Bashed day in and day out.

Kofi Annan has been bashed almost since the moment he hit the international scene.

[Seeker47]

No internet site is ever fully protected regardless of where in the world it is hosted, all due to the fact that domains are registered through a centralized entity in California. But depending on the country, the person behind the site may be protected.

And good luck finding them, in many cases. Domains are bought, sold, traded all the time. When you use the Arnic WHOIS, you might be surprised how many times the last available listing ends in a P.O. Box in Patagonia, or somewhere like that. If you even get that far.

[mbellot]

I respect His restraint. Bashed day in and day out.

Kofi Annan has been bashed almost since the moment he hit the international scene.

And deservedly so considering the number of scandals surrounding him. But that drags us into the political arena, which the mods would prefer we avoid so I'll just leave it at that.

And with that I am also giving up on ROF. He can continue to hawk whatever party line the RIAA/MPAA want him to, I'm not interested in refuting it any further.

As BJ_M said, he is entitled to his opinion and I have better things to do with my time.

[Noahtuck]

ROF probably smokes too much crap.

As i kind of stated in a previous thread on 11/22/05 :P

This year alone there has been several multi-state raids upon these types of vicious criminals.

Viscious???

Yeah, i caught that awhile ago.... just blew if off as it was prob. a typo when the pipe burned his lip

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1412144#1412144



:P

[adam]

And good luck finding them, in many cases. Domains are bought, sold, traded all the time. When you use the Arnic WHOIS, you might be surprised how many times the last available listing ends in a P.O. Box in Patagonia, or somewhere like that. If you even get that far.

I don't follow. It doesn't matter who owns it or who it gets sold to, no matter what happens its still the same domain name and all you've got to do is show ICANN proof of copyright infringement on that domain and the domain can be seized. The real problem is that rarely does the copyright holder actually want the domain name, ala a trademark infringement seizure, they just want to get the site shut down...and all that foreign individual has to do is buy up a new domain name and rinse, wash, repeat. So like I said, the individual may be safe depending on their country but the domain name never is...but the fact that its so easily replaceable and ultimately worthless means that alot of warez/torrent sites are just ignored.

I've seized domains through ICANN before. If the owner fails to answer then taking the site is literally as easy as mailing in some paperwork, containing your proof of course.