The legal system simply cannot process every single civil or criminal complaint everyone in the US may have. If a security researcher had to go through a court, and/or law enforcement, every single time they wanted a malicious domain taken down then their work would be nigh impossible.
Legal due process should be required when there are legal penalties or punishments. In this case, the bot herders and malware distributors are not subject to any criminal or civil penalties in response to abuse complaints: they do not go to jail and are not fined. Some of them will be fined or imprisoned, many years later, but everyone's better off if their botnets are shut down immediately instead of in 2-5 years.
It's a dealing between private entities: private entity X agrees to stop providing server or domain hosting for the bot herder after seeing a good faith report. A provider has every right to stop offering you service.
Without this sort of cooperation between entities, the Internet would be even more of a mess right now.
The legal system simply cannot process every single civil or criminal complaint everyone in the US may have. If a security researcher had to go through a court, and/or law enforcement, every single time they wanted a malicious domain taken down then their work would be nigh impossible.
Legal due process should be required when there are legal penalties or punishments. In this case, the bot herders and malware distributors are not subject to any criminal or civil penalties in response to abuse complaints: they do not go to jail and are not fined. Some of them will be fined or imprisoned, many years later, but everyone's better off if their botnets are shut down immediately instead of in 2-5 years.
It's a dealing between private entities: private entity X agrees to stop providing server or domain hosting for the bot herder after seeing a good faith report. A provider has every right to stop offering you service.
Without this sort of cooperation between entities, the Internet would be even more of a mess right now.