Apart from the oddities noted by Marc Rontenberg in: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marc Rotenberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > According to the New York York Times, it was the Dept of > Homeland Security (the same agency that brought us > airport body scanners) that seized the BitTorrent site and others. > This seems odd since it is the US Dept of Justice that would > typically investigate copyright matters. > > Note also that this action took place prior to Senate action > on COICA. >(... > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html > > U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown > By BEN SISARIO > Published: November 26, 2010 >(...) The seizure notice in <http://torrent-finder.com/> looks a bit strange, and if you check the source, the page content boils down to: <div align="center"><img src="IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg" width="1024" height="768" border="0"></div> and a bunch of scripts. Now - however immoral the US policy may be copyright-wise, one thing US gov. agencies do is respect web accessibility guidelines. Banging an image of text like said <http://torrent-finder.com/IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg> on a page without alternative description does not comply with these guidelines as screen readers used by the blind and print-disabled cannot make head or tail of such an image. The only thing a screen reader would read on that page would be "This domain name has been seized by ICE dash Homeland Security Investigations dash Internet Explorer", according to the Fangs extension of Firefox. Could this not rather be a demo by torrent-finder.com and other torrent search services against what new copyright enforcement might do, rather than an actual copyright enforcement measure? Just wondering Claude