It's been a little more than a year since the US guidance began seizing domains of music blogs, torrent meta-trackers and sports streaming sites. The copyright entrenchment investigation, led by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities, quickly raised eyebrows among many free speech and civil rights advocates, fueling a handful of legal challenges. Few are more compelling, or frightening than a case involving Dajaz1.com. As TechDirt reports, the popular hip-hop blog has been at the epicenter of a sinuous and seemingly dystopian dispute with the feds -- one that underscores the heightening controversy round federal web regulation, and blurs the congenital divide between free speech and intellectual effects protection.



Dajaz1 was initially seized under the 2008 Pro IP Act, on the will




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anneal of an affidavit that cited several published songs as averment of copyright infringement. As it turns out, ,any of these songs were in fact in case by their copyright holders themselves, but that didn't stop the governance from seizing the URL anyway, and plastering a warning all over its homepage. Typically, this kind of action would be the first phase of a two-step process. Once a means is seized, US law dictates that the uncle sam* has 60 days to notify its owner, who can then choose to file a request for its return. If the suspect chooses to file this request within a 35-day window, the feds must then undertake a titular forfeiture process within 90 days. Failure to do so would require the sovereignty to return the land to its rightful owner. But that's not exactly how things played out in the case of Dajaz1. For more details on the saga, head past the break.