Friday, March 07, 2014
National Museum of Crime and Punishment has display of ICE, including domain seizures
The National Museum of Crime and Punishment near
Verizon Center in Washington DC now houses a small exhibit from ICE,
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The exhibit started March 5, 2014 and runs through December 2014. It has two small rooms.
The most controversial part of the exhibit concerns “intellectual
property.” ICE brags that it can
interdict the commerce of counterfeit goods, and displays counterfeit Superbowl
rings and tickets, Rolex watches, and Rosetta language learning. It also displays the strike page that appears
when ICE seizes a web domain because some users on it have been trafficking in
counterfeit goods.
The problem with this practice is that it can shut
down an entire site for the wrongdoing of one or a few users.
I had visited the museum in 2008 (see movie review
of short on “Americas Most Wanted” on movies blog, Oct. 6, 2008), but it seems
a lot more displays have been added.
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