May 25, 2005

First Bittorrent bust in the US?

According to boingboing, the US Department of Homeland Security (a division of Time Warner) conducted 10 different search and seizure operations this morning.

This morning, agents of the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed 10 search warrants across the United States against leading members of a technologically sophisticated P2P network known as Elite Torrents. Employing technology known as BitTorrent, the Elite Torrents network attracted more than 133,000 members and, in the last four months, allegedly facilitated the illegal distribution of more than 17,800 titles - including movies and software - which were downloaded 2.1 million times.

To John C. Richter and all my buddies in government here, thanks for keeping me safe. You're my heroes.

Read the full article, if you can stomach it.

Posted by Jordan at May 25, 2005 5:25 PM | TrackBack


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