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Senator Wyden Asks WTF Is Up With Homeland Security Domain Seizures
TorrentFreak ^ | 2/3/2011 | Ernesto

Posted on 02/03/2011 2:02:33 PM PST by Smogger

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To: Smogger
DOJ,NIPR, and HSI.

The three stooges look like geniuses compared to this bunch.

41 posted on 02/03/2011 6:21:37 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: The Comedian

Great, but the real concern is when it hits the fan, where will Shep get his lipstick?


42 posted on 02/03/2011 6:25:49 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Smogger

I’m a bit confused on one point: What bearing does IP enforcement have on homeland security? Are we worried that Al Qaeda is pirating DVDs?


43 posted on 02/03/2011 6:45:19 PM PST by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: Smogger

I may not like how they went about it, but I applaud the move to shut down those sites. They were pirating sports and television feeds, stealing...no other way to put it.


44 posted on 02/03/2011 7:05:19 PM PST by SideoutFred (B.O. Stinks...it really does)
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To: Smogger

Ping


45 posted on 02/03/2011 7:09:35 PM PST by Batman11 (Sarah Palin: "Illegal immigrants are called illegal for a reason!")
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To: snowrip

Issa is in the House, not the Senate.


46 posted on 02/03/2011 7:58:19 PM PST by ratsreek
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To: mojitojoe
Would they allow us to do what they are doing in Egypt?

A free American people don't need no steekin permit to protest our government.

47 posted on 02/03/2011 7:58:41 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: killermosquito

I think the major league sports leagues are preparing for paid streaming video services over the internet. If I recall correctly, Major League Baseball already has a subscription service to watch any game live for a full season at quite a reasonable price. So I expect that’s where this is going and probably within two years you’ll be able to watch all NFL games with relatively low-quality video on your computer at a low cost on NFL.com. I think they’ll keep the video resolution at a low level so as not to compete directly with HD video on the networks and by subscription from DirecTV.

I think that’s what this is all about: protecting the future revenue of sports leagues from streaming video. But you have to wonder what’s next. As far as I know, sports bars have been picking up satellite broadcasts of major league sports for decades without paying a dime to anyone. Is DHS going to show up at your local sports bar and shut the place down for illegally using satellite dishes to pick up all the games on Sunday? This is starting to go too far. There are enough laws on the federal books to make everyone in America a law-breaker of some kind. DHS has to use sound judgement about which laws really need to be actively enforced.


48 posted on 02/03/2011 8:52:15 PM PST by socialism_stinX (Why did California go bankrupt?...because of unfunded mandates, medicaid, and illegal immigration.)
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To: pallis
This nation won’t be free again until this country rids itself of fascist police organizations that are above the law and the Constitution. To get to there, we will have to rid ourselves of the politicians who keep funding them. Conservative politicians need to get off the federal band wagon, and get back to looking after the liberties of their constituents.

I agree. "Due process" has become only words on a piece of paper. These fascists are running ramshod over our rights and liberties. Now Lieberman and Obama want to be able to shutdown the internet when they deem it necessary just like Mubarak did in Egypt.

49 posted on 02/03/2011 10:00:34 PM PST by apoliticalone
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To: SideoutFred

More power to them! Here is to hoping they far outnumber the “policing” feds.


50 posted on 02/03/2011 10:25:40 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: Smogger

11. Why does ICE and DOJ consider this a more important priority for their time and resources than catching the illegals streaming across the border?


51 posted on 02/03/2011 10:31:41 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: Soothesayer9

I happen to be in the TV sports programming business. If they were stealing from your business, I don’t think you would feel the same way.

Stealing is stealing.


52 posted on 02/04/2011 2:24:02 AM PST by SideoutFred (B.O. Stinks...it really does)
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To: Smogger
Good to know they have their priorities in order.

ICE Keeping Us Safe from NFL Feeds

Ice Agents Now NFL Who Dat Police At Super Bowl

ICE Agents Now NFL Trademark Police

53 posted on 02/04/2011 3:21:46 AM PST by OddLane
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To: SideoutFred

Does the NFL have a pay for view site to watch the Super Bowl?


54 posted on 02/04/2011 3:46:21 AM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: Smogger

Explain to me how streaming sports video sites are a danger to homeland security?


55 posted on 02/04/2011 5:07:45 AM PST by voicereason (A RINO is just a different shade of Democrat.)
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To: voicereason
Not sure, but it probably involves James Harrison.
56 posted on 02/04/2011 5:21:10 AM PST by OddLane
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To: TigersEye

“We needed another national security agency to protect us from websites that stream sports events?”

I guess copyright infringement = terrorism.
Which is not that far from criticizing economic/monetary policy = terrorism.
Or from subversive speech = terrorism.


57 posted on 02/04/2011 6:12:32 AM PST by sanchmo
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To: Smogger
This is why the Dept. of Homeland Security should never have been created. In the right hands, we (probably) don't have too much to worry about. But, in the wrong hands as it is now, a rogue admin like this one will abuse their power without blinking an eye. I say we scrap every agency or little fiefdom that has been created in the government in the past 10 years and go back to what we had beforehand.
58 posted on 02/04/2011 9:51:41 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Democrat Motto - "A lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth can put its pants on.")
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To: SideoutFred
"TV sports programming business"

A misnomer if there ever was one.

59 posted on 02/04/2011 1:59:21 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: sanchmo

I think you’re right. Meantime 60,000+ real terrorists set up shop throughout the land.


60 posted on 02/04/2011 2:06:17 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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