Posted on 11/27/2010 11:43:16 AM PST by PhilosopherStone1000
Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods.
While complex, it’s still possible for U.S. authorities and copyright groups to point at a fully-fledged BitTorrent site with a tracker and say “that’s an infringing site.” When one looks at a site which hosts torrents but operates no tracker, the finger pointing becomes quite a bit more difficult.
When a site has no tracker, carries no torrents, lists no copyright works unless someone searches for them and responds just like Google, accusing it of infringement becomes somewhat of a minefield – unless you’re ICE Homeland Security Investigations that is.
This morning, visitors to the Torrent-Finder.com site are greeted with an ominous graphic which indicates that ICE have seized the site’s domain.
(Excerpt) Read more at torrentfreak.com ...
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ping a ling
Interesting that some of the firms who have had their domain names seized are registered to companies in China.
One byproduct will be that there will be less support for the US to continue to be the registrar for the world.
Further to note, that the firms were apparently not given a chance to respond before their domain names were seized.
Why is Homeland Security ICE the primary agency for this?
Ping.
I read the warrant and have a very basic understanding. My question is what will keep the site owners from setting up shop somewhere else?
exactly
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