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Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents
honkimon writes "Cnn Money reports,
"Government agents said the onslaught included 10 search warrants and
the shut down of a central Web site used to coordinate all file-sharing
activity on the Elite Torrents network. That Web site,
Elitetorrents.org, had a selection of copyrighted works
that government officials described as virtually unlimited.""
I take it those dirty terrorists were trading copies of Star Wars again?
I definately feel safer knowing that DHS is tackling major problems like downloading movies.
I wonder if it is possible to have a near infinite number of copyrighted works available. I think it isn't.
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
Dangit guys, how come I only find out about these great torrent sources after they get shut down?
You probably shouldn't click this.
one less than infinite.
Assuming there's video footage of the shutdown please someone post a torren... ...never mind
We're From Homeland Insecurity!
All Your Torrents Are Belong To Disney!
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May be linked to the Release of Star Wars 3, any action against movie download sites at this time could be. Very great the financial impact of piracy on this particular film could be, therefore criticize the Feds for doing this now, we cannot. Open source principles on Open source movies should be applied. A commercial movie Star Wars is, and benefit from the Piracy is cannot, because knows about it everyone does already.
Damn.. the FBI needs some better web designer. The site looks like crap and could cause a seizure.
It's probably the same person that designed slashdot's IT scheme.
Trolling is a art,
dude did you try clicking on it? i instantly got catapulled into a secret network of spy computers that had access to every mainframe all over the world!!!
then i had sex with sandra bullocks and my day was complete
It's so sad. I saw those hidden chars and tried a few url variations before realising that in fact I wasn't sandra bullock.
Because when you download movies and music, your downloading communism. A friendly reminder from the RIAA and MPAA.
What on earth is the hidden "RTJKJAS"
Return of The Jedi King, Jar-Jar Against Spiderman.
It's the next epic hollywood blockbluster which was leaked early and led to the site being taken down.
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
Welcome our JOB PRODUCING overloards.
Damn, I had a great ratio at ET!!
If they bust Empornium next, they'll completely ruin my sex life.
How difficult would it be to host these trackers in China or any other country that the neo-cons in Washington don't have against the wall?
Latency shouldn't be such a problem, all the tracker has to do is hook the users up.
Sweet mother of God, what an ugly page. View source and it gets even scarier...
I need to wash my eyes now.
http://request-header.info
it is probably a double Caesar Cipher then...
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
Stop making people think here! You can't think and jerk your knee at the same time!
/. groupthink:
Come on, get back into the
corporations = evil
profits = evil
US government = evil
Microsoft = evil
Just keep saying it and pretty soon you'll feel a lot better!
Maybe they think it stinks, like everyone else in the world over 16?
Might make you feel better, but you dont make a dent..
The entire structure of copyright laws need to be revamped.
Of course i know that will never happen as long as the large corporations are in control of the government.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
First-time offenders convicted of criminal felony
copyright laws will face up to five years in federal prison, restitution, forfeiture and a fine.
5 years, isn't that a bit extreme. Still, kiddnapping gets 10 years, and that's only slightly worse than downloading copyrighted works
I did. He lost me when he said "How the proletariat got in my pajamas I'll never know."
If so, those guys are good. They even got the ICE homepage: http://www.ice.gov/graphics/
It's too bad the Brits didn't have a Slashdot-alike back in the day!
They'd probably have called it "Slashpoint" or "Slantdot" something, given the minor linguistic hurdles between the UK and America. But at least there'd be somewhere to gain karma by grousing.
Its lucky for Jesus that the FLAA (Fish and Loaf Association of America) weren't around in his day, they would have prosecuted him for illegal duplication of food during the Sermon on the Mount that put countless hard-working bakers and fishermen out of business.
Blessed are the 1337, for they shall pwn the earth.
I was in a hurry to get the post on here, so I missed the link in the geek.com story to the original article...
:)
Sheesh, go easy on yourself for missing out on a link in your original post. Four links in one post is like the bibliography of a PhD disseration for Slashdot
Yup...
Slantfullstop: Information for Unsavvy Gents. Quintessence of quality.
HEY! Who do you think you are? This is slashdot, where you're supposed to make a short, vague, insubstantiated claim about how the man is trying to keep you down, or company X is evil! How are we supposed to bicker amongst ourselves like the spoiled children we are, happily ignoring the sinister truths of this generation and it's overlords, while you deliver well thought-out and incisive jabs at a new culture which says only juggernaughts which can provide bland goods and services without any particular positive or negative aspects are the only businesses who deserve to continue to run because they make the most money with the least capital!
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that the McDonaldization of jobs is detrimental to the economy, and the outsourcing of jobs added to it has and will continue to erode everything which makes our countries great, as everytone is either a burger flipper or a businessman telling chinese workers how to do their jobs over a video conference!
It's been a long time.
I am going to push back, not sit around and take it like a @#$$Y.
What is an ahssy?