Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

dantheman82 and others have submitted a number of links about the recent closure of torrent mega sites like suprnova and torrentbits. The Unofficial Suprnova Closure FAQ comments that some torrent site maintainers have been arrested and that Suprnova was closed over fear of similiar fate. DeHavilland notes that the finnish police raided an unnamed torrent site. There's a lot of scary things here, but to me what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding.

Comments

Re:What does mobilizing foreign police actually me

[davesplace1]

Just wait till the Microsoft Empire strikes back, better hope the Lunix Jedi Knights show up too :)

Re:Real World Censorship

[LWATCDR]

Ummm.... Didn't these sites have pirated stuff on them? I mean where they not breaking the law?
Just checking if I missed something. It is not that they where shutting down bit torrent which has totally legal uses but that they where shutting down a site that had links to pirated materials.
You can still get Fedora off of Bit torrent last time I checked.