FBI announces Operation D-Elite, Crackdown on P2P Piracy Network (BitTorrent)

FBI.gov ^ | May 25, 2005

[KoRn]

This is hilarious.

http://www.elitetorrents.org/

What a joke. If you go to the site it has the seal of The Office of Homeland Security.

Each and every one of us should call our congressman and ask them what Torrents have to do with Homeland security. This is outrageous.

[familyop]

"I've downloaded as many as 50 files over BitTorrent, it doesn't make me a pirate."

If I understand that correctly, you are referring to files that are free or paid for.

...haven't used bittorent, yet (CVS and the like instead, so far). But everything on my machines is free (no proprietary or for-sale copyrights), and all of the free libraries I use for development practice are also alright for commercial, closed code use when the time comes.

But then I'm an old nerd who doesn't watch the latest movies or listen to the latest music. Radio and used tapes/CDs from shops and yard sales for a couple of hours on some weekends is enough.

[familyop]

You can use strong encryption to lock up everything on your hard drives if you don't export the encryption software or do anything illegal.

[Centurion2000]

Internet pirates cost U.S. industry hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year from the illegal sale of copyrighted goods and new online file-sharing technologies make their job even easier," said Assistant Secretary Garcia. "Through today's landmark enforcement actions, ICE and the FBI have shut down a group of online criminals who were using legitimate technology to create one-stop shopping for the illegal sharing of movies, games, software and music."

If they can go after these guys then the War on Terror, War on Drugs and all the other crap Wars we have better be solved already.

The FBI has better things to do, but they want to be fat and lazy and pick on people that wont shoot back.