[pp.int.general] Julia Schramm

[Francisco George]

Hi,

In Spain there was the "RojaDirecta case". RojaDirecta is a site offering
links to other websites that broadcast "illegaly", according US copyrights,
sports events like NBA, NFL, UEFA etc...

RojaDirecta has been 2 times found NOT Guilty by Spanish Court Rooms
according to spanish laws because they only provided the links and didn't
hosted any of the events on their servers.

Nonetheless FBI and ICE Department, 18 months ago seized both .com and .org
domain from them, they remained in operation through their .es and .me
domain. Losing of course lots of trafic as most of it came from the one
seized.

They started a complaint right after in the US against the seizing of their
"under US Laws" Domains. After 18 months of litigations and dirty tricks
from US prosecutors. ICE and FBI finally, 3 weeks ago, said that they
abandoned the case and the judge ordered the US authorities to return the
seized domains.

see the article of Mike Masnick at TechDirt
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120829/12370820209/oops-after-seizing-censoring-rojadirecta-18-months-feds-give-up-drop-case.shtml

There must be a way that Europe must fight such actions by US Authorities
as they Acted against 2 spanish court orders that said that, under Spanish
laws, RojaDirecta was perfectly LEGAL.

Francisco George - PP ES
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