Board 8 > US Courts know just enough about the internet to cause trouble [net neutrality]

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/judge-says-domain-name-loss-is-not-a-substantial-hardship.ars

lol wut. I would think they would be pretty cheesed if someone hacked uscourts.gov and replaced it with a page saying "domain name loss is not a substantial hardship" and their sole presence isn't on the net. Of course, the argument then comes "if it's not a substantial hardship and you don't need it for evidence, why, pray tell, did you seize it in the first place?"

tl;dr version: Judge argues it would be reasonable to seize the amazon.com name since amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk and other related domains would still be up!

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If government was smaller and less powerful they wouldn't be able to seize domain names in the first place.

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While you do have some dumb judges trying to pull this stuff, there's always the supreme court which has proven that it really knows what its doing in regards to this kind of stuff, so I'm not worried

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Supreme Court is indeed pretty boss when it comes to modern issues like this.

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