Plods to get dot-uk takedown powers - without court order

How long does it take to get an injunction anyway?

the policy proposal makes frequent mention of the motivation being the need to expedite the process and criminal activity being committed in this time window.

it would therefore seem self evident that any suspension should only last for a time appropriate for the police to obtain an injunction.

more broadly to whole proposal is deeply worrying. who is going to be the arbiter of what is and what isn't appropriate. when the EDL plan a rally that turns into a protest who is going to decide if that is criminal or free speech. If paypal refuses to block payments to some organisation that is distasteful to the police who decides if it's ok to block that? Traditionally the courts make these decisions that's what they are there for.

Of course they'd never block anyone or anything that might fight back.

How long does it take to get an injunction anyway? The need to be swift is often used as an excuse for ignoring basic rights.

Woah woah woah!!!

Hang on a minute! Copyright infringement? That's NOT a 'serious organised crime', in fact it's not a crime at all. Copyright infringement is merely an infraction under CIVIL law and any powers given to the police should have no bearing on it whatsoever given that they enforce CRIMINAL law.

The simple fact that several members of the 'MAFIAA'-backed 'FACT' are ex-police officers themselves should be setting alarm bells ringing when the police force (their old colleagues) are being given powers to enforce such action to directly represent of the commercial interests of a few select entertainment media corporations.

Are the people in this country really so asleep that they can't see how comprehensively their freedoms are being sold to powerful companies? This is PURE Fascism in play right now, in plain sight.

Ummm...

This *COULD* have been done properly - take out all less-serious crimes from their list and only suspend a domain for maximum 48 hours (better set the limit at less, but I won't insist).

If the police cannot get a court order within that time, the domain should be unblocked and owner should automatically be sent a template for complaining to the relevant authorities.

How Quickly will

websites critical of the police be shut down?

We have juducial oversight for a reason, its to stop some numbnuts 5 GCSE grade C plod making decisions way above there intellectual pay grade.

Seems fair enough

DNS is just about who you trust as root, it's up to everybody what they use, just like the many recent certificate problems.

I run a server which has all TLD available for purchase, just $50 for google.com + Youtube.com + wikipedia.org, one time offer. It's on the internet and anyone can query it, they just have to make the connection.

Pffff

The quote "consumer harm" sums it all up really...

Won`t some one think of the children?!!

Please, stop the hyperventilating!

Got five lines into the article and realised this is just hyped up non-news. This is not new powers granted to the police, this is not new laws, this is NOTHING more than a RECOMMENDATION from a policy group with zero actual powers. FFS, can some of you tinfoil wearers please get a clue and READ the article before tryping (sic) on and on and ON about how it's a "police state", 1984, etc, etc, etc. What a hilarious bunch of kneejerkers. Major down-vote for the alarmist tone of the headline, more suited to the Daily Mirror/Mail/Sun than The Reg.

I'm going to become a Special

Then I can take down google.co.uk that will be the warm up to taking gov.uk offline, remember gov.uk have engaged in copyright infringement such as with the Iraq dossier they copied off the net without permission or attribution so the law will be on my side, and if anyone in the government wants to interfere with me going about my duties as a police officer I'll be glad to arrest them all from the PM on down.

Should this come into force..

..cue mass updating of .co.uk TTL values to > 7 days

Paris because <insert smutty innuendo here>

Nice in theory - Unworkable in practice

Hello.. is that Nominet? PC99 here, I've found a domain that is both providing links to and is storing pirated material along with a wagonload of illegal smut... the name... it's Google.com.

[for the non webmasters out there Google is not just a search engine it also provides file hosting]

Is this Digital Spy?

Apart from a few notable exceptions I am astounded at the comments on here. I expect this type of hysterical ranting on Digital Spy which is why I don't go there.

So Nominet changing its rules to allow Websites that are engaged in serious criminal activities to be shut down rather than having to find a loophole to do the same thing is bad?

Nominet obviously think there is a need to be able to do this so they are looking for solutions. Which don't appear to be found here!

Uh oh

The Police just don't have the knowledge and experience to make decisions like this. Decisions should be made by a court which can ensure proper consultation - it need not be a lengthy process - there are many other decisions which require court approval and procedures are in place to run them through quickly, even out of hours - why can't this be done here?

Anything like this must be transparent and accountable - something that's seen by the authorities as unimportant nowadays.

slippery slope?

The slippery slope argument is a bad one in principle - but it can highlight legitimate concerns.

The usual government response, sadly, is "we won't use the powers in that way", or even "we will include guidelines [with no legal force] to ask people please please not to use the powers in that way".

What OUGHT TO happen is that the primary legislation should include both strict limits on how the powers can be used, and credible deterrent penalties for breaching those limits. And a mechanism for detecting, reporting on, and prosecuting breaches of those limits.

The penalties should include fines to the organisation, in proportion to the harm done, and penalties for the INDIVIDUALS abusing the process. BOTH components to the penalty are essential.

Unfortunately, that never seems to happen.

It's almost like they didn't want to prevent misuse of the new powers...