The government's website seizure program is already a mess, with one judge refusing to play along and the authorities forced to relinquish a domain in another case. Ars Technica's, Timothy B. Lee asks "Does the government really have the power to seize a domain name, hold it for a year, and then return it without compensating the owner?" Spoiler: yes.
Who needs SOPA when it takes a year to recover mistakenly seized domains?
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