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.""

Comments

Re:homeland security

[TrappedByMyself]

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.

Re:seems to be fake

[anethema]

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

Re:Department of Homeland Security was involved?

[TrappedByMyself]

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.

Re:Had copies?

[LnxAddct]

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

Re:Santa Claus was the first through the door w/ m

[ScentCone]

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.