Commercial contracts are redacted so that crucial financial information is not in the public domain.

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If a site weren't to cooperate after a round of warnings, it might face penalties including DNS and IP blocking, domain name seizures and even financial repercussions that involve having their accounts with "payment intermediaries" (think PayPal) suspended.

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But trusts are now warning that the days of runaway profits may be over as the government moves to restrict lending in areas where the trusts have been most active and as new regulations allow other financial institutions to provide services that were once the primary domain of trusts.

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It came therefore as something of a surprise to find that both details of forthcoming 2008 financial statement disclosures relating to my pension and the substance of our telephone conversation had been placed in the public domain a few hours after we spoke.

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