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Subject IT CAN HAPPEN HERE: Obama Shut Down A Music Blog For A Year For No Real Reason

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Original Message The U.S. government seized the domain of a small but influential music blog a year ago under charges that look pretty bogus, then kept it under lock and key for more than a year, according to this completely outrageous story by Mike Masnick at Techdirt.

Around Thanksgiving 2010, the Department of Homeland Security seized more than 70 domains with no trial, accusing them of copyright infringement, and put up the alarming graphic seen at the right here.

One of the seized sites, Dajaz1.com, was a hip-hop blog.

Read more: [link to www.businessinsider.com]

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