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Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –... by pyre on Saturday November 27, 2010 @01:08AM (#1944418)
As people in the other thread on this mentioned, ICE is tasked with counterfeit items, and apparently they are classifying copyright infringement in with that (notice that a lot of the domains seized look like they are for selling counterfeit jerseys, etc). So while ICE is part of Homeland Security they aren't solely concerned with finding terrorists.
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Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –... by rbanffy on Saturday November 27, 2010 @06:41AM (#1944809)
That's interesting: a group tasked with protecting corporate economic interests that shares the broad powers, not to say the lack of proper oversight, of a group that's tasked with protecting the lives of people against terrorist threats. :-/
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