Three members of the House Judiciary Committee said in a...
Three members of the House Judiciary Committee said in a letter sent last week they were “deeply concerned” that the departments of Homeland Security and Justice “may be failing to properly investigate and prosecute” cases under the PRO-IP Act. The…
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letter was signed by Reps. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Jared Polis, D-Colo., and Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. The members said the departments’ seizure of domain names through the Operation In Our Sites campaign may lack sufficient due process and transparency. Specifically the departments’ seizure of Dajaz1 and other sites resulted in an “unnecessarily prolonged” censorship that severely limited the ability of the website owners to challenge the legality of the domain name seizures, the letter said. The letter was sent on the same day that the U.S. government dropped its copyright infringement case against sports-reporting websites Rojadirecta.com and Rojadirecta.org, which it seized from its Spain-based operators in February 2011. A Justice spokesman said “we aware of the letter and are reviewing it."