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

[Jorge Amodio]

Everybody keeps reporting about something (a court order) but nobody
is showing it, and on the ICE, NIPR, or related sites there is no
clear indication that the reports are accurate.

Until I find/see a copy of the court order this thing looks very bogus.

All reports indicated that what was seized is the domain name, then in
that case the delegation for that particular domain should most
probably point to a DHS or similar related site.

Actually that page is located in a hosting service provider (Caronet
Managed Hosting, own by Carolina Internet in North Carolina, US), very
unlikely that DHS will use Caronet as a hosting proviider.

Now if the ICE actions were real, they should have seized also
torrent-finder.info, some may argue that .info is not under USG
jurisdiction, let me remind you that Afilias is also incorporated in
the Horsham, PA, US, and the site is hosted by a company in Dallas
Texas also under US courts jurisdiction.

It's obviously concerning when the IP community gets overreaching
powers, but is also concerning that others claim the
selling/distributing/manufacturing of counterfeit/fake/stolen stuff
(be it music, software, hardware, or armani underware) is an
expression of free-speech.

I hope we start to see some serious analysis and reports about what
happen in this particular case and stop the flow of incorrect or bogus
information.

Cheers
Jorge

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