I was hoping u would ask this question and I was dying to kick it around with you but ........ with all the spooks I didnt want to mention it till you did.
Can they force you to shut the foreign webmasters site down ? Thats a damn gray area -- UUNET tells me NO ! not until the laws modified again to include such verbage at the present hosts are exempted from the newly revised law BUT<>, Recently the FBI shutdown and redirected a a popular torrent site and slapped up BIG FBI logos and a story explaining why the site was shut down -- I think its safe to say if they can do that - dont be shocked if they do demand such a thing. That was the first time in all my years of running a hosting company I have ever seen the FBI take such drastic steps to make a scene on the net.{{ www.elitetorrents.org }} And be sure not to miss that yea it says DOJ and Dept of Homeland security on it ......... now wtf does homeland security have to do with copyrights HA indeed one more example of that dept has too much power imo.

My reason for asking is this ......
I gather you are yourself in the USA ./....... if that is actually the case - no matter if you have those clients on a server in the netherlands or not if the DOJ decides to play hardball and they find you providing dns to that unit from the USA ,..... I would ASSUME its gonna work just like the spam thing......... In that since you are physically a us company they can subpeona your company records and demand you provide the clients information just as they do with spammers ........
Ive had this happen already and while you have the right to withhold the information doing so places the company in extreme danger as you can be found liable {at least in the case of spam/uce} I am using this as an example only because I have no other frame of reference as to the federal govs past incursions into our hosting companies records...

They even servered subpeona for customers we had operating out of UK servers ...... So is it off limits ? well probably not if your companies main offices are in the usa.
Can you setup a corporation in amsterdam quickly to resolve this issue - well in my research of past dealings like this {not with out company} I find that if the US gov wants something they will use any means necessary to get it so dont be shocked even if you have a foreign corp setup if they come knocking with a subpeona - they can and they may try =--
The best way around it in theory would be to have your corp setup in the netherlands - taking payments from a processor there and maintain no records in the usa and keep them as totally seperate divisions to prevent probing by the us gov.....

However this is really really fishing deep to ASSUME they are going to do any of this and I hope if they have time to do all this crap that they can go find Bin Laden and bring him to justice......
Have they stopped spam emails ????? HELL NO spam increased 400% at our company after the CAN SPAM crap law went into effect -

Are 2257 and can spam related no not really but the FTC is playing HELL trying to enforce that law the only reason some of the spammers were arrested was because AOHELL had their hands in it so deep with earthlink and msn now that the hoopla has ended they are all burried in spam again and lookin around for help... :signhere: Did this law work HELL NO.

Will 2257 work ? IMHO probably not but we wont know till they try to enforce it a few times.

Thas my take on it mr chili