Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations

Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by hartator on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:21PM (#14008867)

I don't want to be this guy, but it doesn't look like an April fool joke to me.

ICE does seize domains for counterfeit merchandiss. [1] Also Kodi has done a lot of job to distance itself from things like that by being a non-profit foundation, being open-source, not furnishing any pirated content directly on their site, etc. [2] It will be very odd way to communicate like this for a project that seems to aim maintaining a low profile a top priority.

[1] https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-international-law-enfo... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software)

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by nthitz on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:22PM (#14008878)

Looking at the page source code you see a google analytics tracker of `UA-3066672-1`. Quick google search shows that that ID has been associated with Kodi for some time. Probably unlikely that ICE would retain the original analytics code.

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by zbuttram on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:26PM (#14008914)

Looks like it might be injected by CloudFlare though, judging by the rest of the `<head>`. Does ICE change DNS for seizures?

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by nthitz on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:31PM (#14008945)

fwiw http://ninjavideo.net/ & http://rockdizfile.com/ are examples of previous ICE takedowns

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by hartator on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:48PM (#14009075)

Lol, it's interesting that fake takedown pages are better engineered than real ones.

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by SippinLean on Friday March 31, 2017 @07:38PM (#14009394)

There was originally a rickroll link in the text

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by nom on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:01PM (#14009954)

Wow, for an april fools joke they really went all in. None of their content is reachable - all that's left is the seizure notice. Now that's what I call dedication!

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by thehodge on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:11PM (#14008793)

and so it begins, the April fools jokes I mean (and also the further crack down on pirated consumption)

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by tracker1 on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:44PM (#14009050)

I hope that this is an April fools joke... I'm not sure that it's even funny in any light.

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by arma26 on Friday March 31, 2017 @08:12PM (#14009522)

april fools

domain: kodi.tv reg_created: 2014-05-29 19:59:29 expires: 2019-05-29 19:59:29 created: 2014-05-29 21:59:29 changed: 2016-02-17 17:16:34 transfer-prohibited: yes ns0: jo.ns.cloudflare.com ns1: toby.ns.cloudflare.com owner-c: nic-hdl: CF3454-GANDI owner-name: XBMC Foundation organisation: XBMC Foundation person: Team XBMC address: '340 S LEMON AVE #7222' zipcode: 91789 city: WALNUT state: California country: United States of America phone: +1.6784943762 fax: ~ email: [email protected] lastupdated: 2015-08-07 16:02:15

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by pr0ph3t on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:54PM (#14008676)

April Fools'

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Re:Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations by naglis on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:57PM (#14008707)

Heh, got me good.

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