November 27, 2010 at 00:12The authorities seized the domain Torrent-Finder.com (changed DNS)
Yesterday's “Black Friday” for torrent trackers was not limited to a conviction for The Pirate Bay. Another unpleasant event happened: in the morning , a terrifying picture appeared on the website Torrent-Finder.com with a notice that “this domain was seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations” by court order. The forum owners are threatened with up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $ 2,000,000.
In this case, it is interesting that the Torrent-Finder.com website did not have any torrent files or a torrent tracker. The site actually did not even host links to pirated torrents. Search worked here, but its results were displayed in separate frames, into which content was downloaded from third-party sites. So it will be quite difficult to prove anything in court.
“My domain was seized without any preliminary complaint or warning from the court,” said the owner of the site, whose identity has not yet been disclosed. At some point, the site administrator discovered that the DNS record for his site had changed. The GoDaddy hoster had no idea why this happened and could not provide a clear explanation, they said that this initiative comes directly from ICANN.
Torrent-Finder.com continues to work at Torrent-Finder.info .
As it turned out later, on Friday morning several dozen domains were simultaneously seized, including 2009jerseys.com, cartoon77.com, lifetimereplicas.com, handbag9.com, dvdprostore.com, etc. ( full list) A message from the same content from Homeland Security Investigations appeared on everyone.
In this case, it is interesting that the Torrent-Finder.com website did not have any torrent files or a torrent tracker. The site actually did not even host links to pirated torrents. Search worked here, but its results were displayed in separate frames, into which content was downloaded from third-party sites. So it will be quite difficult to prove anything in court.
“My domain was seized without any preliminary complaint or warning from the court,” said the owner of the site, whose identity has not yet been disclosed. At some point, the site administrator discovered that the DNS record for his site had changed. The GoDaddy hoster had no idea why this happened and could not provide a clear explanation, they said that this initiative comes directly from ICANN.
Torrent-Finder.com continues to work at Torrent-Finder.info .
As it turned out later, on Friday morning several dozen domains were simultaneously seized, including 2009jerseys.com, cartoon77.com, lifetimereplicas.com, handbag9.com, dvdprostore.com, etc. ( full list) A message from the same content from Homeland Security Investigations appeared on everyone.