Posted on 11/25/2010 4:27:12 PM PST by Bon mots
Torrent Finder was seized by the Feds today. If you go to the page, you see a full page warning... it starts like this:
This domain has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court under the authority of 18 USC §§ 981 and 2323.
Scribd is available and online, I merely wondered how long it would last as it actually hosts a lot of copyrighted material. So does YouTube for that matter.
Hollywood is worried about bittorrent and torrent sharing. Hollywood supported Obama and the Dems big time. So they get the Feds to do their dirty work for free.
Torrent-Finder.com is now offline and you see the nasty message when you go there.
So Homeland Security is responsible for copyright infringement now?
It was.
It allowed you to search for Torrents.
Torrents are files that download very fast. These are commonly used to search, find and eventually share large files such as DivX movies.
You would need to install a "bit torrent" 'client', then use a search site such as Torrent-Finder.com or say, "The Pirate Bay" or IsoHunt and find movies, music, books or whatever you wished online.
This is not necessarily a safe activity if you live in the United States though.
Outside of the USA, this is practiced widely.
Our government, especially when it comes to the dems, are totally owned by the MPAA/RIAA.
Sure those dems are all for the “little guy” against those big evil corporations, until that little guy is downloading a song or ripping a CD....
Homieland Security gropes grannies underwear and shuts down bit torrents of kids swapping tunes. Meanwhile islamists have taken over the white house, Iran has the nuke, Korea is about to explode, thousands have been shot to death and beheaded in the borderland drug/money wars, the dollar is tanking, the euro is bust, trillions of deficit got spent somewhere, yadda yadaa. We have morons in charge. Should not last much longer now before the shtf completely.
I feel so much safer now.
My fave is still Torrentz.com based in canada. A year ago, it offered every known movie on the opening page but this year, it’s as plain as daylight. US courts also forced ISOHUNT to make it harder for US downloaders with ISOHUNT LITE...no movie links as well.
Even the anime sites which show free subbed animes have a disclaimer that they dont store any of the movies on their servers. Funny they still couldnt outlaw allsp.com based in Indonesia that shows every South Park episode under the sun even when threatened by Comedy Central.
Does the government really put up notices like this when a site is busted?
wouldn’t they just disconnect it?
Watch what you click on- maybe it is collecting your IP address
Could this have anything to do with the upcoming classified info dump by the wikileaks guy?
Oh, I see. Thanks for the explanation. I’ve not heard the term “torrents.” I can see why the gov. might want to inquire - seizing the site? That’s alarming.
It is a search engine for movies, shows, music under the sun only via downloads through BIT TORRENT. BT by my experience, is WAAAAYYYY faster than conventional p2p downloads that it simply follows the most basic concept...the more people are on a file, everyone uploads and downloads at a faster rate, passing each piece of the file to another person instead of waiting for the entire file to finish for ONE downloader.
Homeland Security? What does Homeland Security have to do with copyright infringement?
That makes sense. First, I thought if more people are on the file the slower it would be, but I see your point. Interesting.
They are collecting links. They could be collecting IP addresses too.
Here is the visible code on the page:
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Of course, any PHP scripts that might log your IP would be invisible.
They are protecting you, of course.
If you were allowed to download feature films from the Internet, Obama's friends in Hollywood would not have money to donate to the Democrats.
Homeland Security seizes domains.
NASA's chief mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world. (LINK)
They're warming up to shut down Free Republic. We need to move to a virtual P2P website technology that can't be seized by court order.
What if you use an IP cloaker?
If it is ICE then it has to be some import/export thing. Maybe related to foreign violations of copyrights or child pornography.
I'm sure that's not all they have! ! !
"Big Brother" is everywhere! !
Be sure not to raise a red flag by posting the phrase Allah Ahkbar!
That sets off all types of alarms! ! !
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