We recently wrote about the City of London Police ordering various registrars to shut down a list of websites based on the City of London Police themselves deciding they must be illegal. That is, without a court order or any judicial oversight, the police just decided the sites were illegal and needed to be taken offline. On top of that, the police force‘s new „IP Crime Unit“ threatened registrars that if they didn‘t obey, then they might lose their accreditation from ICANN. This was based on a total misreading of both copyright law and ICANN‘s rules.