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.""

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Hahaha...

[Emrikol]

Your Rights Online: Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 25, @06:08PM from the stop-sharing dept. 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."" ( Read More... | yro.slashdot.org ) Official BitTorrent Search Opens Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 25, @05:02PM from the escalating-arms-race dept. starrsoft writes "The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It'll really be down after this story is posted...) Spiegel has more (En): "Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy have tried before, but either they became fast a goal of legal attacks on the part of the industry or they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results. BitTorrent search however proves with first tests [that it is] as...Google...fast. The results come from a large number [of] more well-known and unknown... sites, and...permits sufficient restricting to the inquiry, in order to obtain really relevant results."" ( Read More... | 151 comments ) That's just funny

Santa Claus was the first through the door w/ m16?

[Em Ellel]

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.

Erm, where exactly does it say DHS was involved? Article said FBI and US Customs Enforcement - which seems proper given the situation. Unless I missed something?

-Em

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

[Em Ellel]

To answer my own question - while they do not say anything in the article, there is a huge honking DHS logo on the elite site. I guess US immigration adn Customs are now under DHS

-Em

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

[westlake]

I definately feel safer knowing that DHS is tackling major problems like downloading movies.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement was folded into the DHS.
Investigations into money laundering. the illegal trade in arts and antiquities, intellectual property crimes with an international dimension, are all part of the job. ICE Internet Home Page

Virtually unlimited?

[JReam]

My good heavens! This internet thing is obviously in blatant violation of US Copyright law, and should be shut down immediately! It contains a selection of copyrighted works that could be described as virtually unlimited!