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Who Needs COICA when you have Homeland Security
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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names-
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
Looks like Homeland Security has started seizing domains of known file sharing websites.
If you were to visit sites such as torrent-finder.com you would find this image
This seems like it is out of homeland securitiy's jurisdiction to me. I am not surprised this is happening, but I do find it to be a bit frightening.
What do you guys think about this?
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
Looks like Homeland Security has started seizing domains of known file sharing websites.
If you were to visit sites such as torrent-finder.com you would find this image
This seems like it is out of homeland securitiy's jurisdiction to me. I am not surprised this is happening, but I do find it to be a bit frightening.
What do you guys think about this?
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I'm not entirely sure that counterfeit goods are normally under Homeland Security's auspices, unless it was terrorism-funding related? Perhaps someone could clarify this.
The easiest way to smuggle a nuclear weapon into this country is, of course, digitally. Every single pirated copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smuggled into the US via bittorrent contains an infinite number of nuclear weapons, which makes this the jurisdiction of Homeland Security.
And they're in fact definitely part of it, based on the Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property (pdf) the White House published this year.
Involved agencies: Agriculture (?), Commerce, HHS/FDA, Homeland Security, Justice, State, USTR, Library of Congress/Copyright Office.
Go go organized government!
Okay. Thanks for the clarification.
Oh, just like in the EU, where they sneak in copyright questions in the agriculture department's agenda to hide it from public debate.
Oh man, I remember this shit. I think they tried it a second time under something else, or was that another law?
Pretty easy to trace, actually. I suppose the only question would be why ICE, which is essentially the former offices of INS and Customs combined, went under DHS instead of, say, Treasury or the DOJ, as the former offices were. But anyway....
Basically if you grow a plant they engineered at some time in the past you owe that company money.
Though I absolutely love the inappropriate meeting agendas hiding information from the public.
There has been pressure in the past from the UN and others for the US to give up control of ICANN to an international entity like the UN.
I'm sure this is going to be fuel for the fire on those debates.
I judge it more likely to be used as a precedent for allowing other countries to follow the same path, than to be used as an argument to wrestle ICANN out of US control . Decentralized DNS(which would then be branded "the internet for criminals" or similar) is a more likely next step.
The internet is already starting to fragment thanks to this. Plenty of alternative DNS services popping up, where USA's forced changes don't mean shit.
I cannot find any alternative roots that do not resolve back to ICANN's roots.
There was grumbling about it years ago when the US wouldn't give up control over ICANN, but then everyone looked at what would be involved and went "man, fuck that"
"I'll take the ability to resolve .france, but lose the ability to resolve .com, .net and .org? Man what?!"
opennic and it's types sit a level below ICANN's roots on a hierarchy level. They will personally resolve .whateverthefuck, and pass unknowns back to ICANN because that's just the only way to make such a system not functionally cripple anyone using it.
edit: this isn't to say that piracy oriented websites would not be better served by going to an opennic style solution and dropping themselves down a level of visibility as a result. But that would also make US government officials thrilled, because they'd just state in court that X accused of pirating things was using the alternative roots because they needed access to the pirate site.