>On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Chuck0 wrote:
>
>> "W. Kiernan" wrote:
>>
>> > While you're poking around on line, have a look at http://62.116.31.68,
>> > which used to be vote-auction.com until internic pulled the plug on that
>> > domain name just yesterday.
>>
>> You know, I think more and more people are going to get pissed off about
>> this, because it's becoming apparent that buying a domain name is simply
>> buying a license to publish. What the courts and lawyers are doing is
>> the 21st century equivalent of seizing printing presses.
>
>Yes - but unfortunately, most people don't have any experience with these
>printing presses, and variations on the old 'printing is a font of
>blasphemy' theme are being used to justify these seizures.
>
>Its really, really scary (as, btw, is that story of how Andres Salamon got
>raided).
Liz (last name escapes me) who had been doing vote-auction.com was at the mikro lounge here in Berlin on Wednesday, and said that the court order to pull the domain name came from a US county judge. Before the lounge started a video of a CNN talk show on vote-auction.com was shown. I walked into WMF to see this video running on the screens of each wall of the space, and at first couldn't tell whether it was satire or not.
Anita