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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the injunction-for-thinking-the-lyrics dept.

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Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - TorrentFreak

in September 2013, H33T.com, one of the Internet's most-visited torrent sites at the time, disappeared from the web .

Although the downtime was initially shrouded in mystery, it later became clear that the site had been targeted in a copyright infringement action.

In order to stop the distribution of a copy of Robin Thicke's album Blurred Lines, Universal Music had obtained an injunction against Key-Systems, a German-based registrar where the H33t.com domain name was registered.

Key-Systems wasn't happy with the ruling and the precedent it set but had no other option than to comply. However, the company informed us at the time that it would appeal the verdict, hoping to have it lifted.

This was the start of a drawn-out legal battle from which the latest ruling was just released.

The Higher Regional Court of Saarbrücken concluded Key-Systems can be held secondarily liable for the infringing actions of a customer if it fails to take action if rightsholders point out "obvious" copyright infringing activity online.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:02PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:02PM (#778579)

    we need to replace all these "authorities". i haven't looked into namecoin but it sounds like the right idea if it's distributed dns and registration where consensus is agreed upon by an application on everyone's computer. let these lawyers and pigs try to enforce illegal software instead of us depending on the tax paying, business registering, suited whores to decide who can publish online.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:17PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:17PM (#778587) Journal

    If you can bookmark a static IPv6 address, you don't need a domain name. Most people don't even type in domain names anymore.

    The real problem is that the hosting (and that IP address) can be targeted. So we still need decentralized, distributed systems like Tor, Freenet, etc. IPFS [wikipedia.org] may be a lot more useful than Namecoin [wikipedia.org] (which is apparently dead [ycombinator.com]).

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    • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:21PM (#778614) Journal

      I never got out of the habit of typing in full domain names.

      When I first heard people just typing in in the address bar I was confused...why would you even do that? I see the convenience I guess, but it is simply guaranteed that what they don't want you to see will be missing or on page three.
      (unless you are attempting to reach a site that exhibits an approved viewpoint of course.)

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      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday December 26 2018, @09:17PM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday December 26 2018, @09:17PM (#778724) Journal

        I never got out of the habit of typing in full domain names.

        When I first heard people just typing in in the address bar I was confused

        So where do you type the domain name?

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