Perhaps he didn't want to spend the HUGE legal fees fighting the gov't would incur. duh.

Lot's of people use the chips to play import games or DVD's from different regions.

Back in the day the name of that agency was the Department of Propaganda, or something to that effect.

Considering the US gov't can and does regularly confiscate property, possessions, cars, etc from people even suspected of drugs, i don't see why domains would be any different. All that is required is suspicion. Welcome to the USSA.

Thank god they dont' have anything important to do like investigating terrorists, taking down crack dealers, looking for murderers and rapists. I'll be glad when these pot smoking hippies and gamers will be kept from flying planes into buildings and killing thousands of people, which they inevitably would do. All it takes is one toke or to get a game over, and we are all doomed from these miscreant terrorists.