U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More

torrentfreak.com by Enigmax | Nov. 26, 2010 (News)

(Blog Post) 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. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Law Enforcement, Copyright, Internet
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Posted by: Posted by Jon Mitchell - Nov 26, 2010 - 1:54 AM PST
Reviewed by: Jon Mitchell (review), Paul-André Raymond (review), Joey Baker (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review), Anthony Alaniz (review)
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Edited by: Jon Mitchell - Nov 27, 2010 - 9:32 AM PST

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 by Jon Mitchell - Nov. 27, 2010

Slightly editorial report of the government seizing a filesharing domain without explanation. The article links this event to upcoming votes on internet censorship legislation. Official sources are not cited.

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 by Anthony Alaniz - Nov. 28, 2010

Even though the story is not the most well written or thought out article on the situation, and could be potentially biased, it does bring up a few good points about due process.

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    eff.org by Corynne McSherry | Nov. 30, 2010 (News Analysis)
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