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

[DeeDee Halleck]

 The shields on the notice seem a bit beyond the aesthetic that one
customarily (sic) associates with ICE.
Especially the red border!

But to follow up on Milton and Marc
"ICE is a relatively recent creation, gathering powers that traditionally
resided with Customs and the INS."
and
" Interesting that this can go on without COICA."

At the very least this is a wake up call about the fragility of global
infrastructure with these "gathering powers"

To compare the notice with the aesthetic of ICE check out
http://www.ice.gov/index.htm
ICE seems to prefer images of drug caches and handcuffed brown arms and
under this administration the prevailing color is blue.

BTW "We seize" is what a few of us called WSIS a few years ago in Geneva.

DeeDee




On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something like this happened before and reported by the same people ...
>
>
> http://torrentfreak.com/fansubbing-site-fakes-ice-bust-to-protest-media-reporting-100719/
>
> The article specifically said:
>
> “So we faked that we got taken down to show people that the media
> publishes everything without knowledge and with wrong and assymetric
> information, and if one day they try to catch us, people shouldn’t
> believe in what they will say.”
>
> Can't say, but may be they are trying to be more noisy this time ? How
> much can you trust what these guys report ?
>
> Regards
> Jorge
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> ICANN has no operational knobs it can tweak at the 2nd+ level. Verisign
> >> does.
> >
> > Precisely. I suspect that claim in the article that ICANN was involved
> was simply false.
> >
> >> I'd really like if some of the numerous reports citing a Court order
> >> provide more information about it or a link, so far I'm still trying
> >> to find a concrete reference or the actual order.
> >
> > But that's the disturbing thing about this case, Jorge. It appears that
> no court order was ever served on toerrent-finder.
> >
> >
> >> Both the .com (supposedly seized) and the .info (still working) are
> >> registered by the same person with address in Egypt.
> >
> > If - as appears to be the case - this action depended on the cooperation
> of the registry, it may be that VeriSign was more "cooperative" than
> Afilias.
> >
>



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