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The U.S. hijacks the Internet, one site at a time

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[quote="http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/":6988a]Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods.Yep.
dkun
This is the start of fascism in the U.S.
Mara
Good luck with that.
Neo@lex
No it isn't. It's the same as seizing a store for selling masses of bootleg DVDs.
K2J

dkun wrote:

This is the start
My reaction. Making every attempt to speak from an apolitical position, the TSA and several other agencies (and not just the ones implemented since 9/11, believe it or not) have shown growing signs of this. The only thing new about this is the issue of jurisdiction.
Ephemeral
"physical counterfeit goods"

well no shit what the fuck do you expect

why is this big breaking news again
Claudia_old

Ephemeral wrote:

"physical counterfeit goods"

well no shit what the fuck do you expect

why is this big breaking news again
it's not

trolololo

but seriously @OP, what did you expect...?
wkLeon
Looks like this isn't phasing most of the sites at all http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/27/ice-ice-baby/
jjrocks

WikiLeon wrote:

Looks like this isn't phasing most of the sites at all http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/27/ice-ice-baby/
Ya, not surprised about that. The internet never likes going down without a fight.
Shohei Ohtani
so dues dat meen osu gon get sood?
Shellghost

CDFA wrote:

so dues dat meen osu gon get sood?


I'm not sure how the US jurisdiction effects peppy when he is based in Australia.
He probably won't get sued, it's more likely osu! will be blocked in the US.

>US government
>Sue

... Nevermind.
K2J
rust45
They are claiming domains, not servers.
wkLeon
I don't think they'll do anything to the domain because they can't touch the .sh domains (they're based in a country called St. Helena.). But osu! is an original computer game, so I don't think they'll go after us, unless Peppy isn't cooperating with the RIAA.
Ephemeral
which of course he is, for all of the three songs removed from the listings because of DMCA notices.
Cuddlebun
which three, I am curious
Guy-kun

Cuddlebun wrote:

which three, I am curious
Ephemeral
do you seriously expect me to remember that

all three were japanese that i do remember
Rokodo
This happened to filestube recently.

They were soon back. 8-)
rust45

Ephemeral wrote:

do you seriously expect me to remember that

all three were japanese that i do remember
Ok, so no loss at all.
mekadon_old
Hello thar.
Shellghost

Cuddlebun wrote:

which three, I am curious
Unless i am wrong. Likely. I think they were all apart of a single hentai series as well.
Cuddlebun
that sounds familiar
mekadon_old
Is it me or I can't access Hulu? D:
IppE

mekadon wrote:

Is it me or I can't access Hulu? D:
Watching videos is mostly limited to US based users iirc.
mekadon_old

IppE602 wrote:

mekadon wrote:

Is it me or I can't access Hulu? D:
Watching videos is mostly limited to US based users iirc.
I can watch them few weeks ago fyi.
IppE
Well thats silly, I've never been able to watch stuff there.

Not that I care really, I'd torrent buy family guy dvd's if I actually wanted to watch them...
bagnz0r
Sekuyi
so the U.S. finally goes this far to break its own law by hijacking websites.
thats just the worst.
Jeffro

Ephemeral wrote:

do you seriously expect me to remember that

all three were japanese that i do remember
1 of them was reuploaded because they didn't respond.

It was about Eternal Feather :)
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