ICE Arrests Operator Of Seized Domain

Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 03 March 2011
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ICE has now arrested someone and charged him with criminal copyright infringement, such that he's now facing five years in jail (as well as fines). This is interesting, because when that domain was seized, we had noted that channelsurfing did not appear to host any content itself, but merely embedded content from other sites.

There's simply no such thing as criminal contributory infringement, so if that's the claim, then it would appear that ICE (yet again) is simply making up what it wants the law to be, rather than what the law actually says.

He just embedded the content, which was still streamed from the original sites, so I don't really see much of a copyright violation here.