U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder)

Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –... by aneth on Friday November 26, 2010 @08:57PM (#1944024)

I'm still leaning toward the hoax theory. If I'm wrong, I'm really going to have to reconsider any support of the Obama administration. This is renegade government.

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Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –... by patrickaljord on Friday November 26, 2010 @10:26PM (#1944190)

The ICE confirmed:

“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.”

From the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?...

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Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –... by sucuri2 on Friday November 26, 2010 @09:08PM (#1944044)

It looks fake, but it is not (just read on the NYT as well).

I would imagine that they would just blackhole the ip addresses instead of that ugly image...

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Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –... by hga on Sunday November 28, 2010 @09:17AM (#1947379)

Suggested (in all seriousness) search terms:

gangster government michael barone

Stomping on the Rule of Law is not exactly a new thing for Team Obama.

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