Wednesday February 2nd, 2011 Homeland Security Seizes Spanish
Domain Name That Had Already Been Declared Legal (Techdirt) It
appears that Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) division, and their incredibly sloppy domain
seizure operations, have moved on to the next phase -- as was
promised by both ICE boss, John Morton, and IP Enforcement
Coordinator, Victoria Espinel. The timing on this one is
particularly bizarre -- and politically stupid.  That's because
the the domain seizure is for the Spanish streaming site
Rojadirecta. Yes, ICE seized the domain name of a foreign
company. And it gets worse. Rojadirecta is not just some fly-by-
night operation run out of someone's basement or something. It's
run by a legitimate company in Spain, and the site's legality
has been tested in the Spanish courts... and the site was
declared legal. The court noted that since Rojadirecta does not
host any material itself, it does not infringe.  So, a full-on
trial and legal process that took three years