Homeland Security EXPANDS it's mission to MUSIC DOWNLOADS!!!

[Joanne98]

In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses of a number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

By Friday morning, visiting the addresses of a handful of sites that either hosted unauthorized copies of films and music or allowed users to search for them elsewhere on the Internet produced a notice that said, in part: “This domain name has been seized by ICE — Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court.”

In taking over the sites’ domain names, or Web addresses, the government effectively redirected any visitors to its own takedown notice.

“ICE office of Homeland Security Investigations executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names,” said Cori W. Bassett, a spokeswoman for ICE, in a statement. “As this is an ongoing investigation, there are no additional details available at this time.”

Among the domains seized were torrent-finder.com and those of three sites that specialized in music: onsmash.com, rapgodfathers.com and dajaz1.com. TorrentFreak, a news blog about BitTorrent — a file-sharing system that has tended to elude the authorities because it is decentralized — said that at least 70 other addresses had been seized, most belonging to sites related to counterfeit clothing, DVDs and other goods.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?_r=1&hp

[Warren Stupidity]

1. inevitable development. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

2. We can all sleep more securely now.

And if we keep on sleeping, we will have no freedoms left to be hated for.

[kickysnana]

3. That might get my nieces and nephews attention, nothing else has. n/t

[Billy Burnett]

4. They've gotta purtect "librul" Hollywood (that, coincidently, owns the MSM) fat profits.

[niyad]

5. what does music piracy have to do with security?

[populistdriven]

6. Speaking of thieves -

Does anyone seriously believe these conglomerates are really worried about the performers? Losing jobs in the USA? The people who use torrents are responsible for the outsourced jobs to India and China? I guess if torrent sites are shut down, all those outsourced jobs will come back? What a joke - money always talks to the US Congress, Democrat or Republican, when someone needs a bill passed.


SHARING KNOWLEDGE IS ILLEGAL

[populistdriven]

7. torrent finder is still up on alternate address so you can see how harmless it is. FU ICE!

it is just a search engine

http://torrent-finder.info/

http://208.101.51.56

SHARING KNOWLEDGE IS ILLEGAL

[Pab Sungenis]

8. I'm all for copyright enforcement

but it DOESN'T belong in the hands of the GESTAPO -- uh, "Homeland Security."

[hootinholler]

10. Realy and more specifically ICE

What does taking down torrent sites have to do with Immigration or Customs? Oh wait, Have we enacted a packet surcharge when the intertubes import a packet? Do our packets need touched first?

-Hoot

[bluedave]

9. frankly

I don't give a damn

[jberryhill]

11. No, Customs was moved into DHS

Seizure of infringing imports was always part of the US Customs portfolio.

[avaistheone1]

12. But it will nice for

Homeland Security to have music with the photos.

[frylock]

13. knr