Re:Slippery Slope continues. (Score 1)

Somebody allegedly uses property for an illegal purpose.

Aren't property and creative property distinguished by the US Federal Constitution itself in that when creative property is taken away, the owner is not per se entitled to just compensation as in the case of property, real or personal? Then treating the two analogously would definitely cause problem which the feds seem to be feeding off.

The government files for a seizure warrant in US District Court.

Once again, this is for property real or personal, which is why if I'm not wrong, the COICA (Control of Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) Bill is being moved for adding 2324 to the US Code to enable them to do what they are doing right now, though not as part of an investigative process but as an action in rem, and even extra-territorially. And most importantly, isnt it contradictory to regard the internet, which is a network of networks [needless to say, from both within and outside the US jurisdiction] as something that the US Government has sovereign jurisdiction in the plaintive sense of the term? In that sense, all countries have sovereign jurisdiction over it and if the US Government decides to unilaterally control how the network is going to work, then diplomatically speaking, the US Government has committed a breach of sovereign immunity of every other country that has access to the Web... And lastly, a domain name, being an integral part of the web isn't to be equated with any kind of property for the same reason why no one can claim ownership over the high seas; they connect the world and belong to every country equally. I'm just a law student and I do not specialize in US Laws so anyone wanting to trust what I said, your headache.