Re: FBI might shutdown the Internet on March 8
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:08 pm
You might be right. I had not understood it that way 

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comathi wrote:ThePirateBay does not hot illegal content, therefore they don't have the right to shut it down. All the content is hosted on the users computer, but thepiratebay only hosts trackers info and such.Martin wrote:Because thepiratebay is actually providing illegal content. The FBI would then have sort of a right to shut it down, and the DNS being in the US would just make it easier.comathi wrote:No, I don't think they would be allowed to shut down the DNS servers. Although all DNS servers for .com websites are located in the US, they do not own them and therefore cannot control them more than any other country.You said they dont own .com but then why did thepiratbay move to .se so usa could not shut them down?