Super Bowl bust: U.S. government seizes 307 domains suspected for violating NFL copyrights - Polidicks

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/super-bowl-bust-u-government-seizes-307-domains-230823821.html"]Source[/URL] [release] [IMG]http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/c4Zo.aDtzzkfrWwF6zRXRA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/technews/fva-630-ice-seizure-domain-630w.jpg[/IMG] Target sites assumed guilty until proven innocent under U.S. law While many sports fans are preparing for [URL="http://www.tecca.com/columns/super-bowl-2012-gadgets/"]Sunday's Super Bowl[/URL] by organizing parties and [URL="http://www.tecca.com/columns/20-guides-to-buying-a-super-bowl-tv/"]shopping for TVs[/URL], the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the [URL="http://www.ice.gov/"]U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency[/URL] seized 307 different domains suspected of violating [URL="http://www.tecca.com/columns/how-to-watch-football-online-and-mobile/"]NFL[/URL] copyrights. Of those, 16 were suspected of illegal streaming. The rest were allegedly selling counterfeit NFL merchandise. The seizure was conducted under U.S. civil [URL="http://www.tecca.com/topic/law/"]law[/URL], not criminal law. [highlight]That means the affected parties need to prove that the [URL="http://www.tecca.com/topic/internet/"]internet[/URL] domains were [I]not[/I] engaging in illegal activity to get them back[/highlight] — an ugly mirror image of the country's usual "innocent until proven guilty" right. Many of the domains were not being operated by U.S. groups. Because they used U.S. domain suffixes .net, .com, and .org, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was empowered to act. Visitors to any of the seized domains are now greeted by a message from ICE explaining the takedown. According to the government, these messages have already been viewed over 77 million times yesterday alone. [/release] Nice to know the DHS has their priorities straight.

This is so retarded. They US Government has its own task force to deface websites.

I can get the counterfeit merchandise but streaming ? Bitch please.

Move servers outside USA,or just burn the FBI,military,Homeland retard security,TSA,Congress and white house down with a small-scale supernova bomb.

That looks like something a 12 year old in ICT class would design.

[QUOTE=Woomp;34540565]This is so retarded. They US Government has its own task force to deface websites.[/QUOTE] I'm sure all they do is change the DNS record.

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;34540916]I'm sure all they do is change the DNS record.[/QUOTE] The best thing ever would be if they just changed the homepage's look, but you can still access the rest of the website by just entering the address of another page.

i like how america is not commenting

[QUOTE=autodesknoob;34541548]i like how america is not commenting[/QUOTE] Yeah maybe because no American has finished typing yet. [QUOTE=!TROLLMAIL!;34540690]Move servers outside USA,or just burn the FBI,military,Homeland retard security,TSA,Congress and white house down with a small-scale supernova bomb.[/QUOTE] I miss the bad spelling button.

This is fucking stupid, they keep giving us reasons to dissolve government and start anew, it's ludicrous.

It's fine by me to take down the sites selling counterfeit stuff, but they shouldn't have taken down the streams.

[QUOTE=hoodoo456;34541604]I don't think they got the message that SOPA [I]didn't[/I] pass.[/QUOTE] They don't give a fuck anymore. They're slowly turning America into a state I don't want to be a part of honestly. The American dream is dead in the gutter because they got done raping it so they slit it's throat and walked off.

so that image is likely to show up a lot more now. It's really sad that the government there isn't quite getting why nobody else does this.

[QUOTE=hoodoo456;34541604]It's fine by me to take down the sites selling counterfeit stuff, but they shouldn't have taken down the streams.[/QUOTE] ACTA

'SOPA and PIPA didn't pass? Oh well fuck the people take shit down anyway!'

Its quite easy to make few hundred bucks with this kind of fake streaming site

Surely ICE doesn't exist to protect the profits of sports

[QUOTE=!TROLLMAIL!;34540690]Move servers outside USA,or just burn the FBI,military,Homeland retard security,TSA,Congress and white house down with a small-scale supernova bomb.[/QUOTE] The domain is the issue not where its hosted. I suspect a surge in .ch .se etc domains soon. [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] As for shutting down sites that sell counterfeit goods, they have been doing it for years it is the legit purpose of ICE and the domain seizure power. It is just being abused lately.

First of all, I don't see [B]ANY[/B] point of streaming the game, considering NBC in the United States has a free high definition stream on their site.

Gotta love the fact that the FBI wouldn't crack down so hard if all the money wasn't thrown the Goverments way by the corporations. Fucking American goverment, you ruined your own country now stop trying to ruin the rest of the world.

[QUOTE=autodesknoob;34541548]i like how america is not commenting[/QUOTE] Yeah, because we all voted for this. That's what every American wants, more internet justice!

[url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/avast_brady_fesses_up_to_catching_JXwYKbmtkW6IlPMZbyy7EJ]Good thing Tom Brady's playing in the Super Bowl this year! [/url] I find it absurd that sports corporations are expecting the government to crack down on illegal streaming, because its the companies' own damn fault that a demand for these services exists in the first place. Just look at Major League Baseball (MLB), the governing body of baseball in the United States. They established a system of territorial-based broadcast blackouts in the 1960s. Baseball teams can pick which television market they wish to claim as their "home territory" (eg Red Sox picks Boston, Yankees pick New York City), and that gives them exclusive rights to have their games broadcasted only in the media market they pick. If you happen to be a Red Sox fan but you're living in Los Angeles, you won't be able to watch their games. But wait? We have the Internet now! Aren't these companies adopting to new technologies as the way people watch television changes? Why yes they are- [url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp?product=mlbtv&affiliateId=MLBTVREDIRECT]MLB launched an expensive, subscription-based online streaming service in 2002[/url], and added live HD video streams a few years ago. But why are people still relying on illegal streams to see their favorite games? [url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/help/faq_subscriptions.jsp#q10]Because the MLB's online streaming service has to abide by the same fifty-year-old blackout rules! [/url] Even sports fans agree that MLB needs to get their policies out of the stone age: [url]http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22297882/28732176[/url] If sports agencies want to stop online streaming, they need to update their broadcast policies to 21st century standards, and stop wasting my tax money on absurd government "assistance."

I still can't believe no one is talking about the puppy bowl

The government is just fucking themselves over in the ass. Don't they know the Occupy protests are going to get 500 times worse?

Oh sweet jesus could everyone stop shitting themselves over some websites being shut down? You don't have to like it but seriously please stop acting like the FBI is burying their steel-toed jackboot into the forehead of your newborn.

[QUOTE=Spooter;34545177]Oh sweet jesus could everyone stop shitting themselves over some websites being shut down? You don't have to like it but seriously please stop acting like the FBI is burying their steel-toed jackboot into the forehead of your newborn.[/QUOTE] They don't have the right to do this. The copyright laws did not pass, and it's going against a few amendments. Plus if they start now it's only going to get worse.

[QUOTE=Burgervich;34545143]The government is just fucking themselves over in the ass. Don't they know the Occupy protests are going to get 500 times worse?[/QUOTE] No they aren't, the media has stopped covering them.

[QUOTE=Leonmyster;34542493]First of all, I don't see [B]ANY[/B] point of streaming the game, considering NBC in the United States has a free high definition stream on their site.[/QUOTE] If there is no point in streaming the game because there is a better quality service just next door then there's no point in mobilizing the U.S government to remove them.

[QUOTE=Burgervich;34545203]They don't have the right to do this. The copyright laws did not pass, and it's going against a few amendments. Plus if they start now it's only going to get worse.[/QUOTE] They're working under current copyright laws, so mentioning SOPA and/or PIPA is irrelevant. Same for ACTA, since it hasn't been ratified anywhere yet because the EU parliament hasn't voted on it yet. While their treatment of the sites may not be constitutional, it's hardly like they're lining people up against a wall and shooting them.

Oh no! How dare the US Government shut down websites that were selling counterfeit merchandise and require them to provide proof it's not counterfeit to get their website back! Assholes!