Washington Post staff writer Brian Krebs has published an insightful report on the attempt by the U.S. state of Kentucky to seize international domain names belonging to overseas Internet gambling companies.
An effort by the state of Kentucky to seize more than 140 online gambling Web site names is raising novel legal questions about the physical location of digital property and the reach of local and regional governments on the global Internet.
John Levine, author of "The Internet for Dummies" and co-founder of the Domain Assurance Council, a non-profit industry consortium, told Krebs that the case is likely either to be thrown out or reversed on appeal. "The state's legal arguments fail on so many levels that it's truly bizarre that the court didn't reject this case in the first place," Levine said.
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