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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.""
Homeland Security isn't 100% terrorism. When the department was created there was a reorganization of existing agencies. Immigration and Customs, which handles stuff like copyright enforcement and counterfeit items, was put under Homeland Security.
Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
Terrorist fighting powers - funny! You didn't read the article, did you?
It was immigration and customs, by the way, and nobody but the magoo who started this thread made any connection to terrorism. What a bunch of lemmings.
ICE is just the tip of the glacier that is DHS. Its like a business unit or something.
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No, it is real. http://www.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel05/bittorre nt052505.htm
Actually thats totally wrong.
This is what the actual irc channel topic is:
* Topic for #elitetorrents is: Site is down forever. please part. > http://www.ice.gov/graphics/index.htm
* Topic for #elitetorrents set by SithLord- at Wed May 25 13:00:56 2005
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
The FBI's jurisdiction covers all Federal laws not primarily handled by another branch (for example, counterfeting is handled by the Secret Service). Copyright infringement has long since moved from a purely civil to a criminal matter and therefore falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI. The *IAAs can certainly send cerase and desist letters, and I believe are required to to maintain some of their rights under civil law, but being a private agency they have no say over the enforcement of the law in question (they can choose to cooperate in the prosecution or not, of course, but they don't have any control over what the DA decides).
Yeah, more FUD.
I really think you people take pride in your ignorance.
I say this in another post, but Immigration and Customs, which handles copyright infrigement, is part of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security was created partly to battle terrorism and partly to combine the domestic agencies into one group. This issue has nothing to do with terrorism, even though it adding the word makes it all juicy and gets everyone all riled up.
Someone broke the law, and the government did its job by shutting them down.
Please get a grip and focus on the real issues of the day.
Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
Funny, Immigration and Customs must have different meanings in Canada. Here in the great white north they mean control of people coming into the country, and contol of goods coming into the country. Neither of those has anything to do with copyright law.
It doesn't matter, this is a fake. They were DNS hacked and are trying to figure out what the hell is going on (according to their IRC channel). The Feds don't put up websites like that and they don't go around boasting about morals and copyright infringment on sites that they shut down. The feds also use style sheets on their sites and don't put 1337 sigs at the end of the page many line breaks past the end of the content. But the biggest offender is that that images don't have alt tags (as well as a few other things wrong) and thus the site doesn't comply with federal regulations for disabled people to be able to access all of the content of a federal page, if this were a government site, they'd be breaking their own laws. Not to mention that the feds just take a site offline when they shutdown a place (and they've never done it for copyright infringement), they don't dick around with new homepages for visitors to see like the MPAA did with lokitorrent.
Regards,
Steve
departments like the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, Coast Guard, Customs, and FEMA; have all been moved to, or are in the process of being moved to the DHS
Perhaps the people that are modding this as "interesting" should ask themselves whether or not the comment is, or is not, BS. As an example, the CIA is not a piece of DHS, and is not being moved to DHS. Rather, we've got a new office (now occupied by Negroponte) that is coordinating the intelligence output (though not necessarily operations) of several disparate agencies or units within other agencies. While DHS has a strong interest in coordinated intelligence, it is not an intelligence agency, per se. The FBI, likewise, is still part of Justice, and neither are, or will be, part of DHS. Get your damn facts as straight as your tinfoil hat.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Don't forget about all this free-trade stuff with China and other 3rd world countries that allows Walmart to manufacture stuff in China for cheap and sell it here for a huge profit. This replaces well-paying jobs with McJobs. I'm gonna stop there before I go on ranting. There's an episode of FrontLine that asks "Is Walmart Good for America?" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wal mart/)
I'm afraid I have to join the chorus of voices who will inevitably respond to your modded-way-too-high-for-such-an-ill-thought-out post.
You said: A person cannot end up a single mother with 3 kids working a minimum wage job without making some stupid decisions.
Meet my mom.
Before I was born, she got a graduate degree in Zoology, and performed cutting edge genetic research. She met and married my father, a doctor, who is now one of the top anaethesiogists in the nation. She stopped doing research to raise her 3 kids - I'm the eldest.
So far so good, right?
Well, around the time my littlest sister was born, my dad was working around 100 hours a week. We'd see him once a week or so, and he'd always be angry and throwing things and cursing. Scary for a kid. Even scarier for my mom - her threw her down the stairs and rammed her head into a wall, giving her minor brain damage. Of course, she divorced him, and took us kids and headed to another state. However, ten years had passed since she worked in research, and she couldn't get a job in her field anymore. She managed to get jobs making cold calls on the telephone and secretarial jobs. So there she was, a single mother with 3 kids working a minimum wage job. Perhaps you could tell me the bad decision she had made? Was it marrying the rich doctor who loved her and treated her well for ten years? Or was it leaving her academic career to work on something much more important to her?
Now, I'm doing fine, but I'm about the same age as my mom at the "so far, so good" stage. I haven't made any seriously bad decisions, and I've made a few good ones. Who knows where I will be in a few years? Maybe struggling like my mom had to.
You are correct that there is more to life than luck - decisions do count. But you need to realize that as we are all humans, the information that people use to make their decisions is imperfect. Sometimes decisions which looked good at the time look bad only in retrospect. In addition, while bad luck isn't everything, it does happen - death, illness, abusive families. Just because giving up to bad luck isn't the answer doesn't mean that it doesn't make things much harder. I suggest before you go around judging those minimum wage mothers with 3 kids, you think about how their kids are going to judge you when you tell them from your privileged position how stupid they are.