ICE is taking over web sites - without any prior complaints or notifications from courts

[The Straight Story]

The Deparment of Homeland Security Is Cracking Down On BitTorrent Sites

The Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seizing domains of BitTorrent sites and sites associated with counterfeit goods. They're taking over sites without any prior complaints or notifications from the court.

It's a little messy because some of the torrent sites ICE has been seizing have no tracker, carry no torrents and list no copyright works unless someone searches for them—they're search engines, well with a torrent slant, of course, but search engines by definition. These seizures definitely raise questions on what type of criteria the Department of Homeland Security is using and raises a dark cloud over similar, un-seized sites. Check out the full list of seized sites here.

http://gizmodo.com/5699862/homeland-security-cracking-down-on-bittorrent-sites