Basically the judge can't do anything directly to someone who isn't a party to a case. As far as I could tell from a half assed search, a judge cannot join someone to a case sua sponte (i.e. on their own without a party requesting it). The judge might try to hang his hat on the DNS entry being the property of the defendants, and therefore the ISPs are obligated to do what the judge tells them to do with it (like if a bank was instructed to turn over money in your account to pay a judgement). That, as far as I can tell (again from a half assed search) Is a novel legal theory.
The other possibility is that because it involved Israeli interests, the judge just assumed they could do whatever the fuck they want.
Basically the judge can't do anything directly to someone who isn't a party to a case. As far as I could tell from a half assed search, a judge cannot join someone to a case sua sponte (i.e. on their own without a party requesting it). The judge might try to hang his hat on the DNS entry being the property of the defendants, and therefore the ISPs are obligated to do what the judge tells them to do with it (like if a bank was instructed to turn over money in your account to pay a judgement). That, as far as I can tell (again from a half assed search) Is a novel legal theory.
The other possibility is that because it involved Israeli interests, the judge just assumed they could do whatever the fuck they want.
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