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Re: City of London PIPCU Sending "Notices Of Criminality" To Registrars

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On 2/09/2014 3:39 AM, Rich wrote:
> http://blog.easydns.org/2014/08/29/city-of-london-pipcu-sending-notices-of-criminality-to-registrars/
>
>     As mentioned in our recent back-and-forth with the US FDA, we recently
>     received the following Notice of Criminality from the City of London
>     PIPCU:
>
>     Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Dear Sir or Madam,
>
>     Notice of Criminality
>
>     [domain name redacted by easyDNS]
>
>     EASYDNS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
>
>     Receipt of this email serves as notice that the aforementioned domain,
>     managed by EASYDNS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 28/03/2014 is being used to
>     facilitate criminal activity, including offences under:
>
>     Fraud Act 2006 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Serious Crime Act
>     2007
>
>     We respectfully request that EASYDNS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. give
>     consideration to your ongoing business relationship with the
>     owners/purchasers of the domain to avoid any future accusations of
>     knowingly facilitating the movement of criminal funds.
>
>     Should you require any clarification please do not hesitate to make
>     contact.
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     PIPCU Anti-Piracy | Operations | Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit
>     | PIPCUantipiracy@cityoflondon.police.uk | Address: City of London
>     Police Economic Crime Directorate, 21 New Street, London, EC2M 4TP | ü
>     www.cityoflondon.police.uk
>
>     Once again, we are being asked to do (something, we're actually not sure
>     what this time) based entirely on an allegation which has never been
>     tested in a court of law and has been afforded absolutely zero "due
>     process". (The domain in question is a search engine that hosts no
>     content).
>
>     ...
>


Search engines that provide links to copyright infringing sites can 
themselves be targeted for copyright infringement. Their protection is 
to accept, and act on where appropriate, take-down notices.

The above, of course, is not a take-down notice, and can be ignored.

Sylvia.

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City of London PIPCU Sending "Notices Of Criminality" To Registrars Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-01 17:39 +0000
  Re: City of London PIPCU Sending "Notices Of Criminality" To Registrars Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-02 09:32 +1000

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