30 December 2010

Earlier in the week, hip-hop blogs RapGodFathers, OnSmash, Dajaz1, and RMX4U were seized by Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement group along with the torrent search engine Torrent-Finder. Reasons for the seizure had not been provided, but has now been given. Much of the reasoning for the seizure of the four blogs was left out of released document, but the full reasoning is provided for the seizure of Torrent-Finder. It is accused of being a "bit torrent website", which is untrue as it hosts no content and is merely a search engine. That's like taking down Google, because you could find it on Google too. And then it gets worse from there. "Evidence" is provided in the form of several posts. That's great and all, if the posts were actually from Torrent-Finder. Several of the posts are from TorrentFreak.com, one is a post from ZeroPaid, and one is a story off of CNET. Yet, somehow this is called "support". So if you link to a site, it's a crime. Why not just use an internet kill switch? Get all those "criminals" off for good!
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101217/01190512310/homeland-security-presents-evidence-domain-seizures-proves-it-knows-little-about-internet---law.shtml

1,947 out of 251,287 WikiLeaks cables released so far. (0.8%) Small number, big impact. And many of these have been made into videos which are on Youtube as a part of Operation Leakspin.
Dear Government,
You're losing. ;)

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