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DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names
Many readers have sent in an update to yesterday's story about the Department of Homeland Security's seizure of torrent-finder.com, a domain they believe to be involved in online piracy. As it turns out, this was just one of dozens of websites that were targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"In announcing that operation, John T. Morton, the assistant secretary of ICE, and representatives of the Motion Picture Association of America called it a long-term effort against online piracy, and said that suspected criminals would be pursued anywhere in the world. 'American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates every day, seven days a week,' Mr. Morton said. 'Criminals are stealing American ideas and products and distributing them over the Internet.'"
The TorrentFreak article we discussed yesterday has been updated with a list of the blocked sites.
Is the US government out of control and operating outside the bounds of the Constitution?
Thankfully, our President was formerly a professor who lectured on Constitutional law. I'm sure he's going to sort this one out for us ASAP.
The government just keeps overstepping it's boundaries. It seems to have moved into it's awkward teenage years where it thinks it can do whatever it wants. It's about time we take away it's checkbook. That's what most parents do when their teenager is acting like a punk.
Well the Obama admin, seems to have this heart-on for the term of "man made disasters", so I suppose being a pirate and copying something would qualify.
The term is hard-on. The heart is a completely different part of the body.
Didn't you hear?
Every time someone downloads an illegal song, Osama Bin Laden is sent a nickel.
Libertas in infinitum
I was concerned for my personal safety (and the safety of the public at large) when I found out that people were hearing songs and seeing movies without a proper license to do so.
Who knows what could have happened had these sites not been taken down. A dirty nuclear bomb? Another 9/11? There's no telling what these "music and film watchers" might have unleashed. Thank you, The Government!
'American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates every day, seven days a week,'
Somebody call the waaaaaaaambulance!
...and may have overreached on the torrent site.
Reading's a bitch aint it?
Some times it just gets so hard.
I mean, there were two whole paragraphs there! With two sentences apiece! One can't be expected to read and understand all that information at once now, can they?
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
What happened to innocent until proven quilty?
They ran out of squares to sew together, so they decided to just presume quilt.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Zip and RAR and PAR are used to distribute illegal software, WAREZ, etc. as well as legitimate business items..
I've never seen them used for anything legal. They are tools of the thief stalking the night, with no legitimate uses whatsoever. We've all seen the token legal zip file, but come on, who actually downloads these - we all know file compression was invented to facilitate illegal downloading! Internet Explorer was invented to browse illegal archives, everybody knows this and that it has no other real uses. In fact, we all know Turning invented computing so he could download porn without paying... and somewhere Mr Cerf is cackling over the grand success of his scheme to connect booty sites with downloaders.
I'm starting to think N. Korea is spot on..
Uh-oh, it must be true then.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?