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

[Nuno Garcia]

It makes a lot of sense.

Maybe not a hoax but rather a stunt to raise awareness to what may be the
future scenarios when the Internet Police begins patrolling the traffic
aggregation alleys...


On 28 November 2010 11:25, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr at telemedint.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the link Rafik. The ICE website (
> http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm) lists seven
> sites of which warrants were issued to seize their domain names:
>
> "TVSHACK.NET, MOVIES-LINKS.TV, FILESPUMP.COM, NOW-MOVIES.COM,
> PLANETMOVIEZ.COM, THEPIRATECITY.ORG, and ZML.COM".
>
> The source code of these pages is not the same as that of
> torrent-finder.com.
>
> Amr Elsadr M.D.
> Chief Operating Officer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCSG-NCUC [mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Claude Almansi
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 11:43 AM
> To: NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and
> More
>
> Thanks for the further info about a possible hoax, Rafik and Joly.
>
> I had not seen <
> http://grandgood.com/2010/11/27/domain-name-seizures-of-popular-rap-file-sharing-sites-potentially-an-elaborate-hoax/
> >.
> However, re the slashdot comment it quotes about the registration of
> torrent-finder.com, I am not sure it  is pertinent: torrent-finder.com
> has been about at least since Jan. 3, 2006, according to
> <http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://torrent-finder.com>.
>
> Best
>
> Claude
>
> 2010/11/28 Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>:
> > Well that is getting more fuzzy, http://j.mp/f8EClO people pretending
> that
> > is. Elaborated hoax
> >
> > Rafik
> >
> > BlackBerry from DOCOMO
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Joly MacFie <joly at PUNKCAST.COM>
> > Sender: NCSG-NCUC <NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> > Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:47:37 -0500
> > To: <NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> > ReplyTo: Joly MacFie <joly at PUNKCAST.COM>
> > Subject: Re: U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and
> More
> > 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
> >
>
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