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• Music Blogs Caught Up in Labels’ Online Piracy Fight - NYTimes.com

  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence|   from the legal-systems-and-intertubes-don't-mesh dept.|   posted by Soulskill on Monday December 20, @17:02 (Censorship)|   https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/20/2139201/DHS-Seized-Domains-Based-On-Bad-Evidence?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  An anonymous reader writes "Back over Thanksgiving, the Department ofHomeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit (ICE) made alot of news by [0]seizing over 80 domain names. While many of theseinvolved sites that sold counterfeit products, five of the domainsinvolved copyright issues. Four of them [1]involved hiphop-related blogs— including ones that hiphop stars like Kanye West and others used topromote their own works, and the last one was a meta search engine thatsimply aggregated other search engines. Weeks went by without the ownersof those sites even [2]being told why their domains were seized, but theaffidavit for the seizure of those five sites has recently come out, and[3]it's full of all sorts of problems. Not only was it put together by arecent college graduate, who claimed that merely linking to news and blogposts about file sharing constituted evidence of copyright infringement,it listed as evidence of infringement [4]songs that labels specificallysent these blogs to promote. Also, what becomes clear is that the MPAAwas instrumental in 'guiding' ICE's rookie agent in going after thesesites, as that appeared to be the only outside expertise relied on indetermining if these sites should be seized."
  Discuss this story at:   https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/20/2139201/DHS-Seized-Domains-Based-On-Bad-Evidence?from=newsletter#commentlisting
  Links:   0. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/27/1910232/DHS-Seizes-75-Domain-Names   1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html   2. http://rapfix.m

  tags: technology

• FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers | Threat Level | Wired.com

  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| FBI Defend Raids On Texas Datacenter|   from the we're-from-the-govt-and-we're-here-to-help dept.|   posted by timothy on Monday December 20, @00:50 (Crime)|   https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/20/015259/FBI-Defend-Raids-On-Texas-Datacenter?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Aryden writes "Wired Reports: 'The FBI on Tuesday [0]defended its raidson at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted outequipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses. The raids werepart of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T and Verizonabout unpaid bills allegedly owed by some data center customers,according to court records. One data center owner charges that thetelecoms are using the FBI to collect debts that should be resolved incivil court. But on Tuesday, an FBI spokesman disputed that charge.'"
  Discuss this story at:   https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/20/015259/FBI-Defend-Raids-On-Texas-Datacenter?from=newsletter#commentlisting
  Links:   0. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/data-centers-ra/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+wired%252Findex+%2528Wired%253A+Index+3+%2528Top+Stories+2%2529%2529&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

  tags: technology

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