(h/t Red State) The website Torrent Freak has a fascinating story about the Obama administration's seizure of websites associated with sharing copyrighted material and with producing/selling counterfeit merchandise:
Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods.
Visitors to seized websites are greeted with the graphic pictured above. Seized sites include such threats to homeland security as:
overbestmall.com
rapgodfathers.com
realtimberland.com
rmx4u.com
scarfonlineshop.com
scarfviponsale.com
shawls-store.com
silkscarf-shop.com
silkscarfonsale.com
skyergolf.comI don't deny that copyright and trademark violations are a serious problem, but American law enforcement has more pressing matters to concern itself with.
At least we know what kinds of threats the Obama administration takes seriously. They can't close the borders, and they are looking for the weapons of mass destruction in women's vaginas, but darn it they'll pull out all the stops to protect you from a counterfeit Burberry scarf.
Feel safer now?
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