U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More
Written by enigmax on November 26, 2010
Following on the heels of this weeks domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, its 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.
While complex, its still possible for U.S. authorities and copyright groups to point at a fully-fledged BitTorrent site with a tracker and say thats an infringing site. When one looks at a site which hosts torrents but operates no tracker, the finger pointing becomes quite a bit more difficult.
When a site has no tracker, carries no torrents, lists no copyright works unless someone searches for them and responds just like Google, accusing it of infringement becomes somewhat of a minefield unless youre ICE Homeland Security Investigations that is.
This morning, visitors to the Torrent-Finder.com site are greeted with an ominous graphic which indicates that ICE have seized the sites domain.
U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More | TorrentFreak
Department of Homeland Security | Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America
Written by enigmax on November 26, 2010
Following on the heels of this weeks domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, its 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.
While complex, its still possible for U.S. authorities and copyright groups to point at a fully-fledged BitTorrent site with a tracker and say thats an infringing site. When one looks at a site which hosts torrents but operates no tracker, the finger pointing becomes quite a bit more difficult.
When a site has no tracker, carries no torrents, lists no copyright works unless someone searches for them and responds just like Google, accusing it of infringement becomes somewhat of a minefield unless youre ICE Homeland Security Investigations that is.
This morning, visitors to the Torrent-Finder.com site are greeted with an ominous graphic which indicates that ICE have seized the sites domain.
U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More | TorrentFreak
Department of Homeland Security | Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America
