The New York Times reports on the case of a British Travel Agent living in Spain, who had his domain names seized by his US domain registrar at the request of the Treasury Department.
They felt that he, “helped Americans evade restrictions on travel to Cuba”, so they seized the sites, including one about Earnest Hemingway, and two in Italian and French.
A whois shows that the Pirate Bay uses Key-Systems GmbH?
Perhaps they are in a country of laws, and not men.