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Renegade:
Out of hand is an understatement.

What happens when you let your own government terrorize you with threats thousands of kilometers away across the planet that in real terms have little or no effect on the average person? You get a scared mob screaming to be protected. What's the cure? Hand over all your remaining freedoms. What's the upshot? Terrorists are downloading movies and music and software and are a grave threat to national security. Oh, they're eating babies too while they watch their pirated movies, listen to their pirated music, and use their pirated software. Oh, and they're going to eat your older children too. Then they'll eat you!

Security? Huh?

Hey, I hear that there are some places with mosquito problems. Perhaps they should nuke them... Then drop a few megatons of nerve gas to kill off anything left alive... That'll teach them mosquitoes!

The real terrorists are in Washington D.C.

I like Benjamin Franklin:

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
--- End quote ---

This is what they're putting up:

51607.com has that. 2009jersey.com was up when I checked. amoyhy.com was also down.

This is the amoyhy.com page:

--- Code: HTML ---<html><head><title>This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations</title></head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="center"><img src="IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg" width="1024" height="768" border="0"></div><script type="text/javascript">var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://74.81.170.107/piwik/" : "http://74.81.170.107/piwik/");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script><script type="text/javascript">try {var piwikTracker = Piwik.getTracker(pkBaseURL + "piwik.php", 1);piwikTracker.trackPageView();piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();} catch( err ) {}</script><noscript><p><img src="http://74.81.170.107/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1" style="border:0" alt="" /></p></noscript><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-19806388-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', false]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script></body> </html>
And yep, the title:

This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations

This is WWWWAAAAAYYYYYY too Orwellian.

Renegade:
Ok, maybe a slight over-reaction with the mosquitoes, but at a minimum it's the equivalent of sending in the army over a bar fight.

f0dder:
Deeply, deeply, deeply troubling.

I don't care much that a torrent (or whatever) site is gone - but the way it's done and by who? Ugh.

sgtevmckay:
I have it all figured out folks :D

A bomb in a fake Gucci bag is more dangerous than a bomb in a real one.
The government is ensuring that if we are being held hostage by a terrorist with a jersey, it is a real quality jersey and not a fake :p

I must say that I am disturbed at the behind the scenes action of it all. No warning, no public announcement, nothing.
This was just dropped like a bomb.
If it is a legitimate action, then why was this not handled above board?
where is the public announcements?

and why the hell is ICE and Homeland Security involved?
This seems a bit out side of terrorism and immigration!?!!

There is something wrong about the entire implementation.
I agree that if this was illegitimate torrent sites and the like, but it is the tactic and the implementation and the hidden secrecy of it all that I am appalled with

rgdot:
The problem with the US in particular is that these actions create anger directed at 'big government' instead of at those who are governing. The latter is a bigger problem in my opinion but it is also fixable by people voting differently, way differently...

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