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

[Brenden Kuerbis]

@IGPAlert <http://twitter.com/igpalert> DoJ's remarks on recent domain name
seizures
http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2010/ag-speech-101129.html

Purchases were made from websites to confirm sale of counterfeit goods.
Nothing mentioned about the search engine website.

Hopefully, remarks from DHS-ICE's Morton will be published soon.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Claude Almansi
<claude.almansi at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> > Here's what appears to me to be a better explanation:
> >
> https://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-dope-on-dhs-recent-seizure-of-domains/#comment-363
>
> True, watching what is happening to torrent-finder.com is important.
> Howeve, in the main post:
>
> That web servers are not being seized and web content not being
> deleted can easily be verified by clicking this link,
> http://208.101.51.57, which is the original IP Address of a seized
> domain, torrent-finder.com. It’s still up, and it appears it has
> registered a new domain, torrent-finder.info, that resolves to the
> original IP address"
>
> clashes with what a whois for torrent-finder.com says, i.e. that it
> was registered in 2006.
>
> Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal announced that ICE:
>
> "...   said late Sunday that Attorney General Eric Holder and John
> Morton, ICE's director, will hold a press conference Monday morning in
> Washington D.C. to announce "an intellectual property enforcement
> action." "
>
> <
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703785704575643151792876866.html
> >
>
> Let's see what comes out of this press conference.
>
> Best
>
> Claude Almansi
>
>
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