U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

[Joly MacFie]

Yep the scripts are just a bunch of analytics - piwik and google - why would
they use both, or any for that matter?


Very good question!

j

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Claude Almansi <claude.almansi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Apart from the oddities noted by Marc Rontenberg in:
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg at epic.org>
> wrote:
> > According to the New York York Times, it was the Dept of
> > Homeland Security (the same agency that brought us
> > airport body scanners) that seized the BitTorrent site and others.
> > This seems odd since it is the US Dept of Justice that would
> > typically investigate copyright matters.
> >
> > Note also that this action took place prior to Senate action
> > on COICA.
> >(...
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html
> >
> > U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown
> > By BEN SISARIO
> > Published: November 26, 2010
> >(...)
>
> The seizure notice in <http://torrent-finder.com/> looks a bit
> strange, and if you check the source, the page content boils down to:
>
> <div align="center"><img src="IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg" width="1024"
> height="768" border="0"></div>
>
> and a bunch of scripts.
>
> Now - however immoral the US policy may be copyright-wise, one thing
> US gov. agencies do is respect web accessibility guidelines. Banging
> an image of text like said
> <http://torrent-finder.com/IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg> on a page without
> alternative description does not comply with these guidelines as
> screen readers used by the blind and print-disabled cannot make head
> or tail of such an image. The only thing a screen reader would read on
> that page would be "This domain name has been seized by ICE dash
> Homeland Security Investigations dash Internet Explorer", according to
> the Fangs extension of Firefox.
>
> Could this not rather be a demo by torrent-finder.com and other
> torrent search services against what new copyright enforcement might
> do, rather than an actual copyright enforcement measure?
>
> Just wondering
>
> Claude
>



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