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

[Joly MacFie]

Well, despite rumors of the whole thing being a hoax or stunt the NIPRCC
appears to be genuine <http://www.ice.gov/iprcenter/> and the takedowns
legit, but the confusion is understandable - the methods were obscure and
devious. The inclusion of two visitor tracking scripts especially raised
suspicions.
http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-dope-on-dhs-recent-seizure-of-domains/

ICE did take out some sites in June, but did announce it officially
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm and checking one
of the officially seized sites http://tvshack.net/
<http://tvshack.net/>  reveals
a smaller graphic and none of the analytics scripts

It does raise some questions

1) Why no confirming PR from ICE? http://www.ice.gov/news/

2) Why track visitors?

3) Why use third parties and hide behind anonymous whois?

4) Why are the redirected sites not Section 508 compliant?

5) Why do it over Thanksgiving holiday?

As the above article notes it will be interesting to see if Afilias
registered sites are the next target, and it is evident that COICA is
required to similarly block non US registered domains.

joly

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:59 PM, DeeDee Halleck <deedeehalleck at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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
>
>
>
>
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