City Of London Police Cannot Seize Domains Just Because Hollywood Wants Them Too

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"Last fall, we noted that the City of London Police, who had just set up a special "intellectual property crime unit" which appeared to be taking orders directly from Hollywood, had issued bizarre orders to registrars, based on no court order or ruling, that they hand over domain names to the police, point them to a splash page that advertised Hollywood-approved businesses, and block the transfer of those domains to anyone else"

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...transfers-sites-just-because-it-says-so.shtml