SonicSpike writes "In a case against a New York website owner, the ward of Homeland pledge (DHS) is claiming that merely linking to copyrighted item is a crime. DHS, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seized Brian McCarthy's domain, channelsurfing.net, in late January. The site has now been replaced with a conducting warning: 'This domain has been seized by ICE — Homeland sanctuary Investigations, Special Agent in Charge, New York Office.' The advocacy group Demand expedition has claimed that McCarthy never reproduced copyrighted material, and that his website simply linked to other sites. A wrongful grievance - synonyms from thesaurus.com
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lexico_globals.siteinfo.thesaurusurl = "http://thesaurus.reference.co obtained by the group seems to acknowledge that agents knew that McCarthy was running a 'linking website.' While the lawless grievance - synonyms from thesaurus.com
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lexico_globals.siteinfo = new object();
lexico_globals.siteinfo.dictionaryurl = "http://dictionary.reference.com";
lexico_globals.siteinfo.thesaurusurl = "http://thesaurus.reference.co alleges that McCarthy did engage in the 'reproduction and distribution' of copyrighted material, it is never clear that he indeed reproduced any of the specified broadcasts."
McCarthy was arrested last week. Relatedly, TorrentFreak has posted a list of reasons why these domain name seizures are unconstitutional.
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