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US Government Seizes Torrent Search Engine Domain

Posted by Soulskill on from the war-on-torrents dept.

Voulnet writes with this excerpt from TorrentFreak: "This morning, visitors to the Torrent-Finder.com site are greeted with an ominous graphic which indicates that ICE has seized the site's domain. 'My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!' the exasperated owner of Torrent-Finder told TorrentFreak this morning. 'I firstly had DNS downtime. While I was contacting GoDaddy, I noticed the DNS had changed. GoDaddy had no idea what was going on and until now they do not understand the situation and they say it was totally from ICANN,' he explained. Aside from the fact that domains are being seized seemingly at will, there is a very serious problem with the action against Torrent-Finder. Not only does the site not host or even link to any torrents whatsoever, it actually only returns searches through embedded iframes which display other sites that are not under the control of the Torrent-Finder owner."

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  1. Party Pooper by Thing+I+am · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey don't take away our fun of believing everything we read on the Internet and making wild speculations!

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  2. Re:Slippery Slope continues. by houghi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't due process a constitutionally guaranteed right in the US?

    This proves that time travel is possible as you have clearly arrived directly from the 1960s. A lot has changed. Perhaps you might feel as if Soviet Russia had won and taken over the USofA, but that is not the case.

    Do not be alarmed by strip searches in airports, the government spying on their own people or companies, not people, being the important ones. When you go back to the 1960s, look at all the people you will soon call 'hippies' as it is that generation that is doing this to us.

    Perhaps when you go back, you can warn everybody and save us all. Bhagwad: the future of the world lies in your hands.

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  3. Re:Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    America has now officially become a tyrant. Fuck you all.

    You forgot to shout "Admiral Akbar!"

  4. Dunno how he missed the notice. 'Twas right there! by Sloppy · · Score: 3, Funny

    The notice was on display: in an unlit cellar (with no stairs leading to it), in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."

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