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City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns

Posted by samzenpus on from the shutting-it-down dept.

Mr_Silver writes TorrentFreak is reporting that the City of London Police (a private police force in government-backed livery with an authority that does not go beyond the corporate-controlled City of London area — so not to be confused with the Metropolitan Police) has seized control of a number of domains including Immunicity, a general proxy server that was set up as a censorship circumvention tool. This appears to be their next step after placing banner adverts on websites.

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  1. Re:Rome would be so proud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The City of London Police (who are proper police officers and subject to the same rules etc as any other officer and not a 'private' force) have a remit from the government to tackle certain specific types of crime on a national/pan national basis.
    They have a unit that is responsible for this sort of stuff so it does not surprise me that they have done this.

  2. Not a private police force. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know it's bad form to provide accurate information on Slashdot but the City of London police are not private at all. Indeed the Wikipedia page linked to in the summary states that it's a govt entity on the very first page.

    I apologise in advance for being accurate.