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Gated Online Communities

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Inspired in part by concerns raised by the Conficker worm the New York Times posed a question in Sunday’s Week in Review:  Do We Need a New Internet? The issues are not new to anyone who has read Larry Lessig’s Code (either the original or Code 2.0) or Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet–And [...]

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Update on Kentucky Domain-Name Seizure

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Last fall the State of Kentucky convinced a trial court judge to order the seizure of 141 domain names belonging to Internet gambling sites (see posts here and here). The judge ruled that the domain names were gaming devices under state law.  This week the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned the trial court’s seizure order, [...]

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Judge Orders Transfer of Domain Names

Friday, October 24, 2008

Kentucky’s plan to seize domain names belonging to online gambling sites took a giant step forward this week when a state court judge ordered transfer of 141 domain names to the state in 30 days unless the sites block access by Kentucky residents.  The judge ruled that the domain itself is a gaming device under [...]

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Kentucky’s Domain-Name Grab

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, is cracking down on Internet gambling sites, which he refers to as “leeches on our communities.”  (See story.)  The governor filed a lawsuit in Kentucky state court in an attempt to force gambling sites to prevent access to Kentucky residents.   To get the sites’ attention he asked the court [...]

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