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

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hi All,
These take downs (the seven listed below) were a few months ago -- and
all were taken down by their registries pursuant to court order. The
current take downs are a different batch.

Best,
Kathy/PIR

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
> Tele-Med International
> http://www.telemedint.net
> Tel: +2(023)534-6098
> Fax: +2(023)534-6029
>
> -----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
>>