Some good points.
But surely they should have been sent a warning, even a 24 hour one, to remove some content before just being wiped off the Internet.
This action is business destroying and draconian.
But surely they should have been sent a warning, even a 24 hour one, to remove some content before just being wiped off the Internet.
This action is business destroying and draconian.
1) GoDaddy overstepping their bounds and shutting down a website
2) JotForm having inadequate, perhaps even non-existant measures in place to prevent or respond to phishing
Obviously #1 dwarfs #2 significantly but that doesn't make #2 okay.
GoDaddy might not have, if those provisions had been in place. Do these sorts of stories with GoDaddy happen often?
Maybe it wouldn't have saved them, but there are a lot of free-x-hosting companies out there that haven't been shut down in spite of abuse.
It's easy to not imagine what sort of evil your site could be used for when you're thinking of just the awesome problem you're trying to solve.
How can anyone who has ever used the Internet or has even a basic understanding of the Domain Name System believe that it is a registrar's right or responsibility to take down a domain, especially without notice, and that does nothing to contravene the conditions of owning that domain name?
I wouldn't even say you are beating a dead horse with that dependency. It was never a horse to begin with!
The blame obviously lies squarely with the US federal agencies - you do not see this happen in other developed countries, for example (UK does not count since its a US colony in all but name).
In particular, to be able to shutdown or ruin the reputation of a business at the drop of a hat due to alleged breaking of the law - not even by the business itself - before it has even been processed by the justice system!
Just imagine if this had been a takedown of Google, Microsoft, Apple or Facebook site, all of which easily meet or have met the conditions for alleged infringements of US IP or other laws at some point, if for no other reason than hosting user-generated content...
GoDaddy is, regardless, ridiculous.
He didn't. In fact, his point was that there is not a dependency between the points - which is what it means that even if 1 is worse than 2, 2 is still a serious problem.