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Prominent US legislator applauds seizure of websites by customs
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article published on 23 July, 2010
Recently Howard Berman, chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, called a new customs enforcement operation to shut down P2P websites "innovative," and said he is exploring ways to expand it.
He was referring to the seizure of nine domain names last month which kicked off "Operation In Our Sites," an initiative spearheaded by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement ... [ read the full article ]
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Mysttic
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23. July 2010 @ 10:40 |
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I expect to get blasted for this comment, but I feel this tactic although dirty, is better than attacking civilians individually for downloading said content. Close the sites responsible for distribution and it lessens the chance of obtaining illegal content. Now a good user wouldn't be affected by this, there are always to get it; however, most users *like single mom's just trying to save a buck for their kids*, won't know where or how to find if the majority of sites easily looked up by search engines are shut down.
The problem with piracy is that it got too mainstream. Take it back to the days where the hardcore ran it and didn't go off bragging about it to friends and family and showing them all how to do it themselves, only for them to pass the info along again. Anyone who's ever pirated is guilty of sharing that information, maybe a small percentage 5% if that are not, and so we all share in the blame for the US fighting piracy this hard.
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luckyo
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23. July 2010 @ 11:10 |
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The header is wrong. They didn't "seize" the sites, they redirected DNS to a different page, which they defaced with "this site is illegal" notices.
Vast majority of the sites just got a new TLD and were up within hours of this "seizure".
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Mysttic
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23. July 2010 @ 12:44 |
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Well if nothing else then it'll keep showing US is fighting a losing battle.
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23. July 2010 @ 12:58 |
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Originally posted by Mysttic:
Well if nothing else then it'll keep showing US is fighting a losing battle.
The US is good at that...Iraq, Korea, Viet Nam, War on Drugs...we love fighting loosing battles.
Personally, I am fine with this one...all I have to do to get around it is to use a DNS server that is not controlled by the US government...or I could just use an ip address to access a site directly. I would much rather see the government wasting their time with this than with their normal BS that results in the destruction of innocent lives.
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dEwMe
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23. July 2010 @ 13:54 |
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This must be why they are doing such a lousy job securing the physical borders...Pirates are worse than terroists and illegal aliens I guess....ROFL!
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23. July 2010 @ 13:59 |
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ok lets get to the meat and potatoes of it all.... "Recently Howard Berman, chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, called a new customs enforcement operation to shut down P2P websites "innovative," and said he is exploring ways to expand it." give me a break hey Im all for them getting off the downloaders back but how many people had to explain what they did to him befor he made his statements... god the last one who came out and spoke talked about email was like tubes ... man if I didnt know beter Id thought he was high... listion they wasted all that time and money maybe got a list of ip's but more then likely not. what about the uploader like the dvd quailty products that make it out months before the release date..and what about the sites and thier owners like megadownload or what ever they want to call them selves thease days ... and how far can someone keep you on their list like forever so if you dont change your ip vender or mac address you will get caught someday.... pepole need to think befor they click the button...
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ddp
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23. July 2010 @ 15:36 |
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killer, korea, how is that?
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23. July 2010 @ 15:45 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by Mysttic:
Well if nothing else then it'll keep showing US is fighting a losing battle.
The US is good at that...Iraq, Korea, Viet Nam, War on Drugs...we love fighting loosing battles.
Personally, I am fine with this one...all I have to do to get around it is to use a DNS server that is not controlled by the US government...or I could just use an ip address to access a site directly. I would much rather see the government wasting their time with this than with their normal BS that results in the destruction of innocent lives.
You mean "losing" right? Not really sure how we can fight a loose battle.
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23. July 2010 @ 16:42 |
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Politicians are in the pockets of the media industry obviously .
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23. July 2010 @ 16:52 |
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Recently nonoitall called a new sanity enforcement operation to shut down chairmen of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee "innovative," and said he is exploring ways to expand it.
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24. July 2010 @ 00:19 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
killer, korea, how is that?
Our goal going into the Korean war was to secure a stalemate...we never intended to win, and in the end, we lost worse than anyone could have imagined at the time.
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ntense69
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26. July 2010 @ 21:02 |
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until they bring prices down you wont see me buy anything new games are ridiculous on prices movies 20 a movie and music about the same and if i do buy it i don't want no drm but it can be removed its the thought that counts... so that's why sites like this pop up and people use them.
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juventini
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26. July 2010 @ 23:57 |
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Lets see if Foreign Affairs Committee go after Google. I doubt it.
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