Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

[Florian Weimer <fweimer () bfk de>]

* Michael Painter:

> BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a major
> crackdown on movie piracy that involved disabling nine websites that
> were offering downloads of pirated movies in some cases hours after
> they appeared in theaters.

Note that some of the domain names in the ICE press release appear to
be wrong (or they have already lost control of them).

Targeting THEPIRATECITY.ORG and not THEPIRATEBAY.ORG is slightly
ridiculous, and it seems that TVSHACK.NET has already reappeared as
TVSHACK.CC.  ZML.NAME is still controlled by the ZML.COM folks, but
seems to have problems right now.  This takedown approach might work
for controllers of non-too-advanced malware, but you need something
better for content which people actually want to access, and which is
indexed by helpful search engines. 8-/

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