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I'm an American and this is exactly the kind of behavior that makes the rest of the world want us to relinquish our controls over the internet. It is absolutely unacceptable for the government of Kentucky (or America for that matter) To seize ownership of domains that affect the whole worlds internet traffic. This judge and Governor obviously don't understand what the internet is or how it works. The only thing I could see them legally getting away with would be to have the dns servers that are located WITHIN the state of Kentucky to not server responses for those domains. (and that is also a horrible idea, for many reasons many being technical in nature) . I'm pissed. I don't even use these services but I don't think that our government has any right to do what it is in this situation. Poker players of the world perhaps it is time for you to run your own dns servers. Put them offshore far away from American control (where they should be) and then publish the information and some nice graphical walk throughs for the non technical folks demonstrating how to add them to their computers. Thus circumventing then entire sphere of influence and control these guys are using. Anyway this is just plain wrong. It should not be allowed. This judge shouldn't be allowed to make any more decisions regarding our internet (which happens to be a GLOBAL thing read: not just Kentucky). Also the Governor should loose his ability to file any more cases regarding technical matters because he has attacked it from the wrong angle and broke the internet and made America look like a bunch of assholes. Great job just what we need more reason for the rest of the world to think our country is run by ignorant minded assholes who will do what ever they want regardless of if they have the authority to do so and with no regards to the consequences of their actions on others